Enhancements and performance of Seaglider Iridium communications system

Author

Yahnker, C. ; Bozzone, S. ; Newberry, B. ; Germana, D.

Author_Institution

iRobot Corp., Durham, NC, USA

fYear

2012

fDate

14-19 Oct. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

iRobot licensed Seaglider from the University of Washington in 2008 and has subsequently been working to improve the reliability and performance of the design. One area that has received particular attention is the performance of the Iridium communication system. Improvements to the glider have been made in hardware and firmware. In combination with a new hosted cloud basestation and utilization of RUDICS, Seaglider now connects on the first call almost 90% of the time and data throughput rates have increased by greater than 10% resulting in greater reliability and less operational costs.

Keywords

autonomous underwater vehicles; mobile robots; telecommunication network reliability; underwater acoustic communication; RUDICS; University of Washington; cloud basestation; irobot licensed seaglider; reliability; seaglider iridium communications system; Antenna measurements; Antennas; Educational institutions; Hardware; Modems; Software; Basestation; Cloud; Communications; Iridium; Modem; PSTN; RUDICS; Seaglider; Shore Station;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Oceans, 2012

Conference_Location

Hampton Roads, VA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0829-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OCEANS.2012.6404818

Filename

6404818