Networked Sensors for Observing the Air-Sea Interface
Abstract
DURIP grant to develop a local testbed for networked sampling of the air-sea interface. Automated detection and tracking of features of interest, such as currents or internal wave signatures, will be used to queue agile UxVs which will perform coordinated sampling missions. Two-classes of unmanned surfaces vehicle will be outfitted with advanced sensing payloads and operate within the footprint of a land-based radar system. Cooperative missions by heterogenous groups of unmanned vehicles (UxVs) are an emerging technique with growing naval applications. Platform heterogeneity provides an opportunity to leverage different vehicle capabilities for detection, tracking, and characterization with tradeoffs between speed, persistence, and mechanical-noise of the platform. At present, the major challenge in heterogenous UxV missions is the networking, information flow, and data synthesis for adaptive sampling in a timely manner. The proposed system will combine recent work by the PIs in algorithm development for automated signature detection and tracking from X-Band radar, environmentally-aware coordinated USV/UUV autonomy, and fundamental problems in air-sea interaction associated with wavecurrent interaction. The resulting system will support Naval-relevant basic science and advance the state-of-the-art sensing techniques for characterization of signals of interest at the air-sea interface.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Mar 15, 2021
- Source ID
- N000142112224
Entities
People
- Sophia Merrifield
Organizations
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Navy
- University of California, San Diego