Swordfish: an Autonomous Surface Vehicle for Network Centric Operations

The design and development of the swordfish autonomous surface vehicle (ASV) system is discussed. Swordfish is an ocean capable 4.5 m long catamaran designed for network centric operations (with ocean and air going vehicles and human operators). In the basic configuration, Swordfish is both a survey...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ferreira, H. (author)
Other Authors: Martins, R. (author), Marques, E. (author), Pinto, J. (author), Martins, A. O. (author), Almeida, J. M. (author), Sousa, J. B. (author), Silva, E. P. (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2015
Subjects:
Boats
Cellular radio
Mobile robots
Oceanographic techniques
Remotely operated vehicles
Wireless LAN
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/6977
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:recipp.ipp.pt:10400.22/6977
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Summary:The design and development of the swordfish autonomous surface vehicle (ASV) system is discussed. Swordfish is an ocean capable 4.5 m long catamaran designed for network centric operations (with ocean and air going vehicles and human operators). In the basic configuration, Swordfish is both a survey vehicle and a communications node with gateways for broadband, Wi-Fi and GSM transports and underwater acoustic modems. In another configuration, Swordfish mounts a docking station for the autonomous underwater vehicle Isurus from Porto University. Swordfish has an advanced control architecture for multi-vehicle operations with mixed initiative interactions (human operators are allowed to interact with the control loops).

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