DocumentCode
588450
Title
Design and testing of a Self-Mooring AUV
Author
McCarter, B. ; Briggs, R. ; Portner, S. ; Stilwell, D. ; Neu, W. ; Coe, R. ; Duelley, R. ; Malley, D. ; Mims, J.
fYear
2012
fDate
14-19 Oct. 2012
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
8
Abstract
The Virginia Tech Self-Mooring AUV is capable of mooring itself on the seafloor. Its principal mission is to deploy bottom-mounted sensors without the need for a support ship to visit the mooring location. The mooring concept was previously demonstrated using a small-scale prototype. It has, more recently, been transitioned to a full-scale system and successfully demonstrated in the field. In this paper, we document the design of the full-scale vehicle and present results from field trials.
Keywords
autonomous underwater vehicles; oceanographic equipment; sensors; Virginia Tech self-mooring AUV; bottom-mounted sensors; full-scale vehicle; mooring location; seafloor; Drag; Electron tubes; Nose; Propellers; Sensors; Vehicles;
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.2012.6405053
Filename
6405053
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