Development of Command-and-Control Interface for SV3 Wave Gliders (WG-CCI)
Abstract
Autonomous sea-surface vehicles have an important role to play in Naval operations of various kinds, but especially in EM propagation, acoustics and METOC support. Suitably instrumented vehicles can measure surface ocean and lower atmosphere (SOLA) variables thatdescribe the air-sea fluxes which are essential for initiating and testing coupled numerical models of the marine atmospheric boundary layer (MABL) and upper ocean. PI Lenains group has extensive expertise and experience developing research-grade SOLA instrumentpackages for the Liquid Robotics Wave Glider platforms (SV2 and SV3) and have deployed them in a number of ONR-sponsored field programs over the past eight years. His group has recently started exploring dynamic path planning to enable autonomous operations of multiple wave gliders in a pre-determined formation (incorporating master/slave behavior in the path planning software). With this experience, in collaboration and to support Gary Davis group at NIWC who will take delivery of a fleet of SV3 wave gliders in the summer of 2021, we propose here to design and develop a Command-and-Control Interface for SV3 Wave Gliders (WG-CCI) custom-tailored for their needs, circumventing the need for using the Wave Glider Management Software (WGMS) developed by Liquid Robotics. This abstract is publicly releasable.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- May 05, 2021
- Source ID
- N000142112505
Entities
People
- Luc Lenain
Organizations
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Navy
- University of California, San Diego