Underwater gliders: recent developments and future applications

Autonomous underwater vehicles, and in particular autonomous underwater gliders, represent a rapidly maturing technology with a large cost-saving potential over current ocean sampling technologies for sustained (month at a time) real-time measurements. We give an overview of the main building blocks...

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Published inProceedings of the 2004 International Symposium on Underwater Technology (IEEE Cat. No.04EX869) pp. 195 - 200
Main Authors Bachmayer, R., Leonard, N.E., Graver, J., Fiorelli, E., Bhatta, P., Paley, D.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 2004
Subjects
Communication system control
Control systems
Current measurement
Marine technology
Oceans
Particle measurements
Sampling methods
Sea measurements
Time measurement
Underwater vehicles
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Summary:Autonomous underwater vehicles, and in particular autonomous underwater gliders, represent a rapidly maturing technology with a large cost-saving potential over current ocean sampling technologies for sustained (month at a time) real-time measurements. We give an overview of the main building blocks of an underwater glider system for propulsion, control, communication and sensing. A typical glider operation, consisting of deployment, planning, monitoring and recovery are described using the 2003 AOSN-II field experiment in Monterey Bay, California. We briefly describe the recent developments at NRC-IOT, in particular, the development of a laboratory-scale glider for dynamics and control research and the concept of a regional ocean observation system using underwater gliders.
ISBN:0780385411
9780780385412
DOI:10.1109/UT.2004.1405540