Undersea Networked Acoustic Communication and Navigation for Autonomous Mine-Countermeasure Systems
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Rice, Joseph A.
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2002-04
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April 21-25, 2002
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Telesonar underwater acoustic modem technology has attained a level
of maturity sufficient to support undersea wireless communication networks, as
dramatically demonstrated during Fleet Battle Experiment India (FBE-I) in June
2001. Telesonar network development is following a concept of operations called
seaweb. The seaweb blueprint is tailored for battery-limited network nodes
composing wide-area (order 100-10,000 km2) sensor grids. Seaweb already
enables the development of littoral surveillance systems such as the Deployable
Autonomous Distributed System (DADS) and continental-shelf observatories
such as the Front-Resolving Oceanographic Network with Telemetry (FRONT).
Seaweb networking provides acoustic ranging, localization, and navigation
functionality, and supports the participation of mobile nodes as members of the
wide-area network. These mobile platforms include manned submarines and
unmanned undersea vehicles (UUVs) that crawl, swim, glide, and drift. Seaweb
supports expeditionary operations in contested waters, with communication
gateways to manned command centers submerged, afloat, aloft, ashore, and afar.
The seaweb wireless infrastructure naturally extends into mined areas, providing
cross-platform, cross-mission interoperability with anti-submarine-warfare
(ASW), intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance (ISR), and meteorologyoceanography
(METOC) systems. This paper introduces seaweb to the minecountermeasures
(MCM) community, and addresses the communication and
navigation issues associated with autonomous sensors and UUVs.
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5th International Symposium on Technology and the Mine Problem, Monterey, CA, April 21-25, 2002.
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