Modeling Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) operations in mine hunting

Author

Nguyen, B. ; Hopkin, David

Author_Institution

Defence Res. & Dev. Canada-Atlantic, Dartmouth, NS, Canada

Volume

1

fYear

2005

fDate

20-23 June 2005

Firstpage

533

Abstract

As part of the new Underwater Warfare Program, DRDC has started a new project on Task Group Mine Field Avoidance. While the long-term objective of the work is to demonstrate a Task Group Mine Field Avoidance capability using Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) and Autonomous Air Vehicles (AAVs), the first project is focused on developing a realizable and cost effective concepts of operations for this system. This involves looking at a variety of sensor and vehicle configurations, and for predefined mission scenarios, determine the systems measures of effectiveness (MOEs).

Keywords

mining; oceanographic techniques; underwater vehicles; AAV; AUV modeling operations; Autonomous Air Vehicle; Autonomous Underwater Vehicle; DRDC; MOE; Task Group Mine Field Avoidance capability; Underwater Warfare Program; measures of effectiveness; mine hunting; predefined mission scenarios; sensor configuration; vehicle configuration; Costs; Image analysis; Image resolution; Mobile robots; Remotely operated vehicles; Research and development; Sea measurements; Shape; Sonar detection; Underwater vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Oceans 2005 - Europe

Conference_Location

Brest, France

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9103-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OCEANSE.2005.1511771

Filename

1511771