IS43B:
Innovative Uses of Autonomous Vehicles for Ocean Science I


Session ID#: 37252

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, Applied Physics Lab, Univ of Washington, 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:

EVALUATING NEARSHORE MAPPING CAPABILITIES OF AN AUTONOMOUS KAYAK (326498)
Tim Pilegard, University of Delaware, Marine Science and Policy, Lewes, DE, United States, Stephanie Marie Dohner, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States and Arthur C Trembanis, University of Delaware, School of Marine Science and Policy, Newark, DE, United States
Mesobot: An Autonomous Underwater Vehicle For Tracking And Sampling Midwater Targets (322636)
Dana Yoerger1, John A Breier Jr2, Molly Curran1, Justin Fujii1, Christopher R German1, Daniel Gomez-Ibanez1, Annette Govindarajan1, Brett Hobson3, Jonathan Howland1, Kakani Katija4, Joel Llopiz1, Clifford Pontbriand1, Michael Risi3, Bruce H Robison3, Stephen Rock5 and Peter H Wiebe1, (1)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (2)University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, TX, United States, (3)Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA, United States, (4)Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, Monterrey, CA, United States, (5)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
Saildrone: A global class Unmanned Surface Sailing Vehicle for air-sea interaction research (324587)
Dongxiao Zhang1, Meghan F Cronin2, Adrienne J Sutton2, Christian Meinig2, Richard Jenkins3, Dave Peacock3, Jennifer Keene1, Nathan D Anderson4, Shaun W Bell1, Charles N. Long5 and J. Thomas Farrar6, (1)JISAO/University of Washington and NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, WA, United States, (2)NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States, (3)Saildrone Inc, Alameda, CA, United States, (4)JISAO/University of Washington and NOAA/PMEL, WA, United States, (5)NOAA ESRL GMD/CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)WHOI, Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Seabed Characterization Using Ambient Noise and Autonomous Vehicles (323710)
Lanfranco Muzi1, Martin Siderius1, Elizabeth Kusel1 and Peter Nielsen2, (1)Portland State University, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Portland, OR, United States, (2)CTBTO Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, Vienna, Austria
Towards Fully Autonomous Ocean Observing: Coupling Heterogeneous Robotic Arrays with Data-assimilating Models and Autonomous Path Planning (319888)
David M Fratantoni1, Andrew Branch2, Yi Chao3, Francisco Chavez4, Steve Chien2, Selina Chu5, Evan Clark2, Brian Claus6, Zachary K Erickson7, John D Farrara1, Mar Flexas7, Brett Hobson8, James Kepper6, Brian Kieft4, James C Kinsey9, Andrew F Thompson7, Martina Troesch2, Yanwu Zhang8 and Warren Yuan7, (1)Remote Sensing Solutions, Inc., Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Remote Sensing Solutions, Monrovia, CA, United States, (4)Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA, United States, (5)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Machine Learning and Instrument Autonomy, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (7)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (8)MBARI, Moss Landing, CA, United States, (9)WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Integration of a Broadband Acoustic Echosounder onto a Remus-100 AUV for Mapping Estuarine Plumes (313303)
EeShan Bhatt1, Andone C Lavery1, Robert Petitt1, Joseph T Jurisa2 and W Rockwell Geyer1, (1)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (2)Portland State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Portland, OR, United States

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