Approach to the Real-Time Adaptive Control of Multiple High-Frequency Sonar Survey Systems for Unmanned Underwater Vehicles

Multi-Sonar Integration and the Advent of Senor Intelligence

“…Innovative developments in sensor technology have enabled the real-time data acquisition, processing and decision making based on the collected and processed data, of sensor systems during survey operations. Researchers at the Mobile and Marine Robotics Research Centre (MMRRC), University of Limerick, have developed an approach to the real-time adaptive control of multiple high-frequency sonar survey systems for UUVs (Thurman et al, 2008). This approach is based around a centralised sensor payload controller which manages the integrated sensors during survey missions, facilitating the operation of co-located, highfrequency sonar.…”