Establishing the Scientific Capability of the Sentry Autonomous Underwater Vehicle for the National Deep Submergence Facility

为国家深潜设施建立哨兵自主水下航行器的科学能力

• 批准号: 0644290
• 负责人: Dana Yoerger
• 金额: $ 67.5万
• 依托单位: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-09-01 至 2008-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0644290&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Establishing; Scientific; Capability; Sentry; Autonomous

Prop #: 0644290PI: YoergerFunding from this award will greatly improve the National Deep Submergence Facility (NDSF) capability through the introduction and upgrade of the proposed Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV), Sentry. Sentry will impact the deep ocean research community by expanding ocean access with a tool that can operate faster, deeper and longer than the current AUV, facilitating greater scientific accomplishments. The vehicle will greatly enhance the scope of scientific projects through improved capabilities such as larger ranges of seafloor surveys, potential for synoptic surveys of dynamic seafloor systems within a given dive, and much longer separations (in both time and space) between the AUV and support ship which are invaluable to ridge-crest, ocean-margin and abyssal-floor research. The vehicle will support myriad science experiments, making it a true multi-disciplinary tool for oceanographic research.The Project Director, Dana Yoerger is fully qualified to direct this project having had experience with the prototype vehicle ABE and its successor, Sentry. Funding for this project will allow the institution to upgrade Sentry to support diverse deep submergence science research. ***

提案编号：0644290PI：Yoerger 该奖项的资金将通过引入和升级拟议的自主水下航行器 (AUV) Sentry，极大地提高国家深潜设施 (NDSF) 的能力。 Sentry 将通过扩大海洋进入范围来影响深海研究界，该工具的运行速度比当前的 AUV 更快、更深、更长，从而促进更大的科学成就。 该车辆将通过改进的能力，例如更大范围的海底调查、在给定潜水内对动态海底系统进行天气调查的潜力，以及AUV和支援船之间更长的间隔（在时间和空间上）来极大地扩大科学项目的范围，这对于脊顶、洋缘和深海海底研究来说是无价的。 该车辆将支持无数的科学实验，使其成为真正的海洋学研究的多学科工具。项目总监 Dana Yoerger 完全有资格指导该项目，他拥有原型车辆 ABE 及其后继产品 Sentry 的经验。 该项目的资金将使该机构能够升级 Sentry，以支持各种深潜科学研究。 ***