Distributed software system architecture for autonomous launch and recovery system of autonomous underwater vehicles

In this paper we discuss the software system architecture that is developed for the autonomous launch and recovery platform (AutoLARS). The architecture comprises of several components distributed across physical processing units. The architecture handles the real time data from the hydrophones and subsequent processing of that data to guide the AutoLARS to intercept the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) for subsequent recovery. The architecture is built to be distributed to facilitate the load balancing of the system resources. The architecture is modular and makes it easy to deploy based on the system resources.