Scientific Challenges and Present Capabilities in Underwater Robotic Vehicle Design and Navigation for Oceanographic Exploration Under-Ice

Remote Sensing

Antje Boetius¹  MichaelV. Jakuba²  AndrewD. Bowen²  Ted Maksym²  ChristopherR. German³  Larry Mayer³  LouisL. Whitcomb⁴  LaughlinD. L. Barker⁴  Pierre Dutrieux⁵ 

[1] Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, 27570 Bremerhaven, Germany;Department of Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA;Department of Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA;Department of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA;Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY 10964, USA;

关键词: underwater robotic vehicles;    under-ice navigation;    tethered vehicles;    hybrid vehicles;    gliders;    ocean science;   

DOI  :  10.3390/rs12162588

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This paper reviews the scientific motivation and challenges, development, and use of underwater robotic vehicles designed for use in ice-covered waters, with special attention paid to the navigation systems employed for under-ice deployments. Scientific needs for routine access under fixed and moving ice by underwater robotic vehicles are reviewed in the contexts of geology and geophysics, biology, sea ice and climate, ice shelves, and seafloor mapping. The challenges of under-ice vehicle design and navigation are summarized. The paper reviews all known under-ice robotic vehicles and their associated navigation systems, categorizing them by vehicle type (tethered, untethered, hybrid, and glider) and by the type of ice they were designed for (fixed glacial or sea ice and moving sea ice).

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