Autonomous underwater vehicle collision avoidance for under-ice exploration

• Published in: Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part M: Journal of Engineering for the Maritime Environment
• Main Author: Pebody, M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: Arctic; Antarctic; Greenland; Northwind Shoal; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/164295/; https://doi.org/10.1243/14750902JEME81

On 22 August 2004 the Autosub-2 autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) was on its return leg of a 144 km, 24 h under-ice mission in the Arctic sea over the Northwind Shoal off the northeast Greenland coast when it found its path blocked by a deep ice keel that had drifted across its planned mission...