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LONG-TERM GOALS: To improve AUV mission effectiveness, and the quality of AUV-based scientific research, by quantifying important ambient process contributors to platform noise, drag, and instabilities. OBJECTIVES: (1) To quantify AUV response to water column dynamics through spectral and temporal analysis, with particular attention to (a) swell and surface waves, (2) solitons and internal waves, and (3) currents with transverse components. (2) To provide predictive dynamic models for important processes and platform interactions. Also, To provide detailed suggestions for improvement in vehicle design for platform quietness, stability, improved endurance, controller design/optimization, and interactive intelligent response to ambient processes in the littoral ocean. |
