EAVE WEST

EAVE WEST was designed for use as a testbed to Investigate various component technology concepts. The goal is not to derive an optimal vehicle system, but to combine different technologies and observe their relationship to one another. Presently the effort is to determine various areas of artificial Intelligence that might be adaptable to upgrade state-of-the-art vehicle technology. An LSI 11/23 has been incorporated Into the vehicle for these and other experiments. A fiber optics communication I ink will be Installed on the vehicle. It is a full duplex communication I Ink that will be freely deployed from the vehicle with a pre-twist in an attempt to eliminate the entanglement problem. The 1200 baud serial digital data will be multiplexed on the retrace scan of the uplink TV signal. A dichroic duplexer wil I be used to transmit down over the same fiber. A second area being Investigated is a magnetic pipeline follower. The receiver is finished and is working in the laboratory. The next step is to install both the fiber optics and magnetic pipeline follower in the vehicle for an open ocean test sometime this calendar year.