Autosub Long Range: A long range deep diving AUV for ocean monitoring

Furlong, Maaten; Paxton, Dave; Stevenson, Peter; Pebody, Miles; McPhail, S.D.; Perrett, James

doi:10.1109/auv.2012.6380737

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“…To allow for some room, an overall length of 5.6 m was chosen for the Pipefish AUV. To increase the space available for the Minion AUV, the length over diameter ration L/D was chosen as 4.5, based on the Autosub LR vehicles [6]. The resulting diameter is 1.2 m.…”

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Pipefish AUV: The flight style AUV delivering small, purpose built, hover capable AUVs

Schillai

2016

2016 IEEE/OES Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV)

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Abstract-A current challenge for AUV missions is to combine long endurance with high manoeuvrability. The proposed Pipefish AUV is a long endurance AUV capable of high quality survey missions that can deliver multiple hover capable AUVs to sites of interest. The Pipefish AUV and the small vehicles can perform cooperative tasks and reach remote locations without the need for a monitoring surface vessel. It is shown that an endurance of six days can be achieved, whilst transporting smaller AUVs of a volume of almost two cubic metres.

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“…TUNA SAND, [1]) -or flight style with several days endurance (e.g. Autosub Long Range, [2]) but manoeuvring limitations (see Fig. 1 for a subjective comparison).…”

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Pipefish AUV: The flight style AUV delivering small, purpose built, hover capable AUVs

Schillai

2016

2016 IEEE/OES Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV)

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“…Mission parameters are generally predefined or refined when remote communications are established and mission lengths generally vary from hours to days (Griffiths et al, 1998;Wynn et al, 2014). Advances in size and power of AUVs are enabling missions lasting weeks or months with ranges of 1,000s of km that can reach 1,000s of m deep (Furlong et al, 2012). These developments have been trialed for use in ecosystem monitoring (Suberg et al, 2014).…”

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A Review of the Tools Used for Marine Monitoring in the UK: Combining Historic and Contemporary Methods with Modeling and Socioeconomics to Fulfill Legislative Needs and Scientific Ambitions

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Marine environmental monitoring is undertaken to provide evidence that environmental management targets are being met. Moreover, monitoring also provides context to marine science and over the last century has allowed development of a critical scientific understanding of the marine environment and the impacts that humans are having on it. The seas around the UK are currently monitored by targeted, impact-driven, programmes (e.g., fishery or pollution based monitoring) often using traditional techniques, many of which have not changed significantly since the early 1900s. The advent of a new wave of automated technology, in combination with changing political and economic circumstances, means that there is currently a strong drive to move toward a more refined, efficient, and effective way of monitoring. We describe the policy and scientific rationale for monitoring our seas, alongside a comprehensive description of the types of equipment and methodology currently used and the technologies that are likely to be used in the future. We contextualize the way new technologies and methodologies may impact monitoring and discuss how whole ecosystems models can give an integrated, comprehensive approach to impact assessment. Furthermore, we discuss how an understanding of the value of each data point is crucial to assess the true costs and benefits to society of a marine monitoring programme.

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“…Compared with gliders, AUVs like Autosub-3 have a very large science payload for high-power instruments, but the trade-off for the high power consumption is limited operating time and range, and the size of the vehicle requires a specialized crane and considerable deck space. However, ongoing developments of the Autosub AUVs will lead to longer ranges and endurances, permitting them to be used for longer-term monitoring as well as for short-term surveys [36].…”

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Sustaining observations in the polar oceans

Abrahamsen

2014

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A.

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Polar oceans present a unique set of challenges to sustained observations. Sea ice cover restricts navigation for ships and autonomous measurement platforms alike, and icebergs present a hazard to instruments deployed in the upper ocean and in shelf seas. However, the important role of the poles in the global ocean circulation provides ample justification for sustained observations in these regions, both to monitor the rapid changes taking place, and to better understand climate processes in these traditionally poorly sampled areas. In the past, the vast majority of polar measurements took place in the summer. In recent years, novel techniques such as miniature CTD (conductivity–temperature–depth) tags carried by seals have provided an explosion in year-round measurements in areas largely inaccessible to ships, and, as ice avoidance is added to autonomous profiling floats and gliders, these promise to provide further enhancements to observing systems. In addition, remote sensing provides vital information about changes taking place in sea ice cover at both poles. To make these observations sustainable into the future, improved international coordination and collaboration is necessary to gain optimum utilization of observing networks.

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Autosub Long Range: A long range deep diving AUV for ocean monitoring

Cited by 91 publications

References 8 publications

Pipefish AUV: The flight style AUV delivering small, purpose built, hover capable AUVs

Pipefish AUV: The flight style AUV delivering small, purpose built, hover capable AUVs

A Review of the Tools Used for Marine Monitoring in the UK: Combining Historic and Contemporary Methods with Modeling and Socioeconomics to Fulfill Legislative Needs and Scientific Ambitions

Sustaining observations in the polar oceans

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