Title :
MAUVE: miniaturized and reconfigurable instrumentation for multipurpose survey with a Mini Autonomous Underwater VEhicle
Author_Institution :
Thomson Sintra ASM, Sophia Antipolis, France
Abstract :
The overall objective of the MAUVE project is to develop and validate at sea a miniaturized, reconfigurable, mobile and autonomous instrumented vehicle, dedicated to multipurpose survey, in particular in coastal waters. It will be characterized by coherent integration of a compact automatic multiparameter measurement module with a very small autonomous underwater vehicle, enabling sensor-driven navigation. Such a demonstrator, derived from an existing “torpedo-shaped” AUV (CALAS), is being developed and will be validated at sea in Mediterranean coastal waters, within “plume survey” and “bottom mapping” configurations. However, the potentialities of the “MAUVE” project open a much wider spectrum of potential applications, ranging from the monitoring of sub-ice conditions to the surveillance of various dumping sites, through the inspection of the quality of bathing waters
Keywords :
geophysical equipment; mobile robots; oceanographic equipment; seafloor phenomena; sediments; AUV; MAUVE; Mini Autonomous Underwater VEhicle; autonomous instrumented vehicle; autonomous underwater vehicle; bottom mapping; geophysical equipment; instrument; marine sediment; measurement technique; miniaturized and reconfigurable instrumentation; mobile robot; multipurpose survey; ocean; sea coast; seafloor geology; Condition monitoring; Inspection; Instruments; Marine vehicles; Mobile robots; Navigation; Remotely operated vehicles; Sea measurements; Surveillance; Underwater vehicles;
Conference_Titel :
OCEANS '96. MTS/IEEE. Prospects for the 21st Century. Conference Proceedings
Conference_Location :
Fort Lauderdale, FL
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3519-8
DOI :
10.1109/OCEANS.1996.568363