IS44B:
Innovative Uses of Autonomous Vehicles for Ocean Science II Posters


Session ID#: 28653

Session Description:
This session is designed to provide a forum for researchers developing novel uses of either newly designed, or preexisting autonomous vehicles for ocean sensing and sampling. The underlying notion of our session is that oceanography is inherently a 4-dimensional space-time problem and that we are on the cusp of a transformative revolution in the use of individual and swarms of vehicles for persistent and pervasive sensing of the marine environment. A host of traditionally intractable problems will become accessible in the next few years via the advent of a “next generation” of inexpensive and high performance vehicles. These are being enabled by technologies such as high-performance low-power computing, additive manufacturing, improved and new energy sources, improved satellite communication, and new and less expensive sensor technologies. As two examples of potential areas that can benefit, we cite the mapping of underwater habitats at the level of organisms via swarms of underwater camera laden vehicles, and the exploration of remote and difficult to investigate environments such as under permanent ice shelves. We welcome examples of both underwater and airborne autonomous vehicles from a variety of disciplines such as geophysics, physical oceanographic, biology, marine boundary layer and chemistry as applied to marine science.
Primary Chair:  Jules S Jaffe, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
Co-Chair:  James G Bellingham, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Moderators:  Eric A. D'Asaro, University of Washington, Applied Physics Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States and Brett Hobson, MBARI, Moss Landing, CA, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Jessica C. Garwood, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Index Terms:

9805 Instruments useful in three or more fields [GENERAL OR MISCELLANEOUS]
9820 Techniques applicable in three or more fields [GENERAL OR MISCELLANEOUS]
Cross-Topics:
  • AI - Air-Sea Interactions
  • ED - Education, Outreach and Policy

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

A Profiling Observatory for High Resolution Oceanographic, Biogeochemical, and Plankton Observations in Prince William Sound. (312581)
Robert W Campbell, Prince William Sound Science Center, Cordova, AK, United States
Drifting Buoy, Autonomous Submersible and Expendable Depthsonde Concepts for the Scientific Exploration of Titan's Seas (321211)
Ralph D Lorenz, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
A new two-vehicle autonomous system for mapping ice shelf cavities (324173)
Carmen Boening1, Ian G Fenty1, Gail Woodward2, Andrew Klesh3, Rebecca Castano3, Daniel Limonadi3, Michael Schodlok4, Michelle M Gierach3 and Kevin P Hand5, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Robotics Technologist, Autonomous Systems, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (5)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, Pasadena, CA, United States
Passive Acoustic Rainfall Measurement Using Seagliders (324608)
Barry Binbing Ma1, Luc Rainville2, Geoff Shilling2 and Craig Lee2, (1)Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, United States, (2)Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
Scalable Acoustic Navigation for Groups of Low-Cost Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (324643)
Brian Claus1, James Kepper1, James C Kinsey2 and Stefano Suman2, (1)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (2)WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Probabilistic Risk-Optimal Path Planning and Sampling in Uncertain Environments (325442)
Deepak Narayanan Subramani and Pierre F J Lermusiaux, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
Adaptive AUV In-Situ Sensing System (326875)
Gail Woodward1, Michelle M Gierach2, Selina Chu3, Steven Schaffer4, Tara Estlin4, Rebecca Castano2 and Zhijin Li5, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Robotics Technologist, Autonomous Systems, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Machine Learning and Instrument Autonomy, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States
Flight performance prediction and optimization of next-generation underwater gliders (322544)
Ben D Reineman, Jeff T Sherman, Daniel L Rudnick and Russ E Davis, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
Miniature, low-cost, Lagrangian Floats for Imaging Marine Snow (325007)
Jackson T Sugar1, Melissa Omand2, Ken Buesseler3, Anna Michel4, John Bailey4 and Tempest A VAN Schaik5, (1)University of Rhode Island Narragansett Bay - Graduate School of Oceanography, Saunderstown, RI, United States, (2)University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, RI, United States, (3)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (4)WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (5)Imperial College London, Bioengineering, London, United Kingdom
A Two-hydrophone Ocean Glider System for Marine Mammal Tracking Underwater (322486)
Elizabeth T Kusel and Martin Siderius, Portland State University, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Portland, OR, United States

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