Unattended operation of an autonomous seaplane for persistent surface and airborne ocean monitoring
Unattended operation of an autonomous seaplane for persistent surface and airborne ocean monitoring
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自主水上飞机的无人值守操作，用于持续的表面和机载海洋监测
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2010
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G. Meadows
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R. Eubank;E. Atkins;G. Meadows
飞鱼无人水上飞机在第一代无人水上飞机的测试中显示出能够进行自我管理的独立飞行序列，现已更新为包含太阳能收集功能的第二代研究飞行器。新型飞鱼拥有一套独特的能力，适合涉及长期部署、接近永久运行的任务概念。作为一种独特的飞行系统，能够在任何足够大的水域中运行，生成和飞行自主飞行计划，并收集太阳能以进行独立于基础设施的操作，它引领了海洋上完全无人值守飞行操作的发展。对于像 Flying Fish 这样的系统来说，要在没有用户干预的情况下长时间运行，它必须拥有强大且功能齐全的规划能力。它必须能够对能量收集和损失进行准确的预测，以确保能量的生存能力。它必须能够根据高级任务输入来规划飞行，或者至少能够根据可用的任务参数来组合和执行适当的飞行计划。这样的系统需要系统范围的管理软件，并且必须有一套强大的飞行传感器。将介绍这些功能在第二代飞鱼中的实现。本文还将讨论实现永久飞行的无人值守海洋监测浮标仍需要开发的其他技术和功能，包括：科学有效载荷的管理，以最好地进行无人值守的科学研究，以及强大的感知和回避能力，以安全地越过公海上的障碍物。任务和应用将用于突出能力和挑战并推动这项研究。
The Flying Fish unmanned seaplane, shown capable of self-managed sequences of independent flight during testing with the first generation vehicle, has been updated with the creation of second generation research vehicle that incorporates solar-energy harvesting. The new Flying Fish possesses a unique capability set that lends itself to mission concepts involving long term deployment approaching perpetual operation. As a unique flight system capable of operating from any sufficiently large body of water, generating and flying self-initiated flight plans, and collecting solar energy for infrastructure-independent operation it leads the way for the development of fully unattended flight operations on the ocean. For a system such as Flying Fish to operate without user intervention for long periods it must possess robust and fully-featured planning faculties. It must be able to develop accurate predictions of energy collection and loss in order to ensure energy survivability. It must be able to plan flights based on high-level mission input, or at least to assemble and execute appropriate flight plans from available mission parameters. Such a system would require system wide management software and would have to have a powerful suite of flight sensors. The implementation of these features in the second generation Flying Fish will be presented. This paper will also discuss the additional technologies and features that still need to be developed to realize a perpetual flying unattended ocean monitoring buoy, including: management of scientific payloads to best conduct unattended science and robust sense-and-avoid capabilities to safely negotiate obstacles on the open ocean. Missions and applications will be used to highlight capabilities and challenges and to motive this research.