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Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) have gained more interest in recent years for military as well as civilian applications. One potential application of AUVs is for the purpose of undersea surveillance. As research into undersea surveillance using AUVs progresses, issues arise as to how an AUV acquires, acts on, and shares information about the undersea battle space. These issues naturally touch on aspects of vehicle autonomy and underwater communications, and need to be resolved through a spiral development process that includes at sea experimentation. This paper presents a recent AUV implementation for active anti-submarine warfare tested at sea in the summer of 2010. On-board signal processing capabilities and an adaptive behavior are discussed in both a simulation and experimental context. The implications for underwater surveillance using AUVs are discussed.
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This work was funded by our scientific program of work, within the Cooperative ASW project. The authors thank the crew of NRV Alliance and CRV Leonardo for their help in obtaining the at-sea data. Furthermore many thanks go to the great technical assistance and participation during GLINT10 from the staff and students of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Laboratory for Autonomous Marine Sensing System (MIT LAMSS), and from the Naval Undersea Warfare Centre (NUWC).
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Kemna, S., Hamilton, M.J., Hughes, D.T. et al. Adaptive autonomous underwater vehicles for littoral surveillance. Intel Serv Robotics 4, 245–258 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11370-011-0097-4
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