Preliminary Polar Sea Trials of Nereid-UI: A Remotely Operated Underwater Vehicle for Oceanographic Access Under Ice
We report the development and deployment of a remotely-controlled underwater robotic vehicle capable of being teleoperated under ice under real-time human supervision. The Nereid Under-Ice (Nereid-UI or NUI) vehicle enables exploration and detailed examination of biological and physical environments...
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ftuninhampshire:oai:scholars.unh.edu:ccom-1060 2023-05-15T15:14:51+02:00 Preliminary Polar Sea Trials of Nereid-UI: A Remotely Operated Underwater Vehicle for Oceanographic Access Under Ice Whitcomb, Louis L. Jakuba, Michael German, Christopher R. Bowen, Andrew Yoerger, Dana Kinsey, James Mayer, Larry A. McFarland, Christopher Suman, Stefano Bailey, John Judge, Christopher Elliott, Stephen Gomez-Ibanez, Daniel Taylor, Christopher L. Machado, Casey Howland, J. Kaiser, Carl L. Heintz, Matthew Pontbriand, C. O'Hara, L. McDonald, G. Boetius, Antje 2014-12-01T08:00:00Z https://scholars.unh.edu/ccom/61 unknown University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository https://scholars.unh.edu/ccom/61 Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping text 2014 ftuninhampshire 2023-01-30T21:31:34Z We report the development and deployment of a remotely-controlled underwater robotic vehicle capable of being teleoperated under ice under real-time human supervision. The Nereid Under-Ice (Nereid-UI or NUI) vehicle enables exploration and detailed examination of biological and physical environments including the ice-ocean interface in marginal ice zones, in the water column of ice-covered seas, at glacial ice-tongues, and ice-shelf margins, delivering realtime high definition video in addition to survey data from on board acoustic, optical, chemical, and biological sensors. The vehicle employs a novel lightweight fiber-optic tether that will enable it to be deployed from a ship to attain standoff distances of up to 20 km from an ice-edge boundary. We conducted NUI’s first under-ice deployments during the July 2014 F/V Polarstern PS86 expedition at 86° N 6 W° in the Arctic Ocean - near the Aurora hydrothermal vent site on the Gakkel Ridge approximately 200 km NE of Greenland. We conducted 4 dives to evaluate and develop NUI’s overall functioning and its individual engineered subsystems. On each dive, dead-reckoning (Ice-locked Doppler sonar and north-seeking gyrocompass) complemented by acoustic ranging provided navigation, supporting closed-loop control of heading, depth, and XY position relative to the ice. Science operations included multibeam transects of under-ice topography, precision vertical profiles for the bio-sensor suite and IR/radiance sensor suite, IR/radiance/multibeam transects at constant depth interlaced with vertical profiles and upward-looking digital still-camera surveys of the ice, including areas rich with algal material. The fiber-optic tether remained intact throughout most of all 4 dives. Consistent with the NUI concept of operations, in 3 of 4 dives the fiber-optic tether eventually failed, and the vehicle was then commanded acoustically in a series of short-duration maneuvers to return to Polarstern for recovery. These preliminary dives ranging up to 800 m from Polarstern at a max. ... Text Arctic Arctic Ocean Greenland Ice Shelf University of New Hampshire: Scholars Repository Arctic Arctic Ocean Gakkel Ridge ENVELOPE(90.000,90.000,87.000,87.000) Greenland |
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We report the development and deployment of a remotely-controlled underwater robotic vehicle capable of being teleoperated under ice under real-time human supervision. The Nereid Under-Ice (Nereid-UI or NUI) vehicle enables exploration and detailed examination of biological and physical environments including the ice-ocean interface in marginal ice zones, in the water column of ice-covered seas, at glacial ice-tongues, and ice-shelf margins, delivering realtime high definition video in addition to survey data from on board acoustic, optical, chemical, and biological sensors. The vehicle employs a novel lightweight fiber-optic tether that will enable it to be deployed from a ship to attain standoff distances of up to 20 km from an ice-edge boundary. We conducted NUI’s first under-ice deployments during the July 2014 F/V Polarstern PS86 expedition at 86° N 6 W° in the Arctic Ocean - near the Aurora hydrothermal vent site on the Gakkel Ridge approximately 200 km NE of Greenland. We conducted 4 dives to evaluate and develop NUI’s overall functioning and its individual engineered subsystems. On each dive, dead-reckoning (Ice-locked Doppler sonar and north-seeking gyrocompass) complemented by acoustic ranging provided navigation, supporting closed-loop control of heading, depth, and XY position relative to the ice. Science operations included multibeam transects of under-ice topography, precision vertical profiles for the bio-sensor suite and IR/radiance sensor suite, IR/radiance/multibeam transects at constant depth interlaced with vertical profiles and upward-looking digital still-camera surveys of the ice, including areas rich with algal material. The fiber-optic tether remained intact throughout most of all 4 dives. Consistent with the NUI concept of operations, in 3 of 4 dives the fiber-optic tether eventually failed, and the vehicle was then commanded acoustically in a series of short-duration maneuvers to return to Polarstern for recovery. These preliminary dives ranging up to 800 m from Polarstern at a max. ... |
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Whitcomb, Louis L. Jakuba, Michael German, Christopher R. Bowen, Andrew Yoerger, Dana Kinsey, James Mayer, Larry A. McFarland, Christopher Suman, Stefano Bailey, John Judge, Christopher Elliott, Stephen Gomez-Ibanez, Daniel Taylor, Christopher L. Machado, Casey Howland, J. Kaiser, Carl L. Heintz, Matthew Pontbriand, C. O'Hara, L. McDonald, G. Boetius, Antje |
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Whitcomb, Louis L. Jakuba, Michael German, Christopher R. Bowen, Andrew Yoerger, Dana Kinsey, James Mayer, Larry A. McFarland, Christopher Suman, Stefano Bailey, John Judge, Christopher Elliott, Stephen Gomez-Ibanez, Daniel Taylor, Christopher L. Machado, Casey Howland, J. Kaiser, Carl L. Heintz, Matthew Pontbriand, C. O'Hara, L. McDonald, G. Boetius, Antje Preliminary Polar Sea Trials of Nereid-UI: A Remotely Operated Underwater Vehicle for Oceanographic Access Under Ice |
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Whitcomb, Louis L. Jakuba, Michael German, Christopher R. Bowen, Andrew Yoerger, Dana Kinsey, James Mayer, Larry A. McFarland, Christopher Suman, Stefano Bailey, John Judge, Christopher Elliott, Stephen Gomez-Ibanez, Daniel Taylor, Christopher L. Machado, Casey Howland, J. Kaiser, Carl L. Heintz, Matthew Pontbriand, C. O'Hara, L. McDonald, G. Boetius, Antje |
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Preliminary Polar Sea Trials of Nereid-UI: A Remotely Operated Underwater Vehicle for Oceanographic Access Under Ice |
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Preliminary Polar Sea Trials of Nereid-UI: A Remotely Operated Underwater Vehicle for Oceanographic Access Under Ice |
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Preliminary Polar Sea Trials of Nereid-UI: A Remotely Operated Underwater Vehicle for Oceanographic Access Under Ice |
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Preliminary Polar Sea Trials of Nereid-UI: A Remotely Operated Underwater Vehicle for Oceanographic Access Under Ice |
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Preliminary Polar Sea Trials of Nereid-UI: A Remotely Operated Underwater Vehicle for Oceanographic Access Under Ice |
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preliminary polar sea trials of nereid-ui: a remotely operated underwater vehicle for oceanographic access under ice |
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