Investigation of requirements and capabilities of next-generation mine warfare unmanned underwater vehicles
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Authors
Camacho, Miguel
Galindo, David
Herrington, Daniel
Johnson, Thomas
Olinger, Ali
Sovel, James
Stith, William
Wade, Jeffrey
Walker, Peter
Subjects
model-based systems engineering
unmanned underwater vehicles
modeling and simulation
mine warfare
mine countermeasures
near term capability improvements
real time analysis
RTA
communications
functional flow block diagrams
system models
system architecture
unmanned underwater vehicles
modeling and simulation
mine warfare
mine countermeasures
near term capability improvements
real time analysis
RTA
communications
functional flow block diagrams
system models
system architecture
Advisors
Miller, Gregory
Beery, Paul
Paulo, Eugene
Date of Issue
2017-12
Date
Dec-17
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Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School
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This report identifies the system characteristics that have the largest impact on mine counter-measure (MCM) unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) performance. Model-based systems engineering (MBSE) tools, including functional flow block diagrams and functional hierarchies, are used to logically define MCM UUV operations and support the development of alternative concepts of operations. A discrete event simulation is used to model operations for a design of experiments selected set of system characteristic combinations. Statistical analysis is applied to simulation outputs to identify UUV design characteristics with the most significant impact on the time taken for an MCM UUV to perform the detect and classify mission. The main conclusions of this study are that the most important system characteristics for MCM UUVs are UUV travel speed and sensor width, and that bandwidth limitations for subsurface communications eliminate expected benefits of constant communication between UUVs and their parent vessels.
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Systems Engineering Capstone Project Report
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Systems Engineering (SE)
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.