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

该合同的资金将通过引入和升级拟议中的自主水下航行器（AUV）“哨兵”，大大提高国家深潜设施（NDSF）的能力。Sentry将通过使用比现有AUV更快、更深、更长的工具扩大海洋访问范围，从而影响深海研究界，促进更大的科学成就。通过改进的能力，例如更大范围的海底调查，在给定的潜水中对动态海底系统进行综合调查的潜力，以及AUV和支持船之间更长的间隔（时间和空间），AUV和支持船之间的距离对脊顶，海洋边缘和深海海底研究是无价的，因此该车辆将大大增强科学项目的范围。该船将支持无数科学实验，使其成为海洋学研究的真正多学科工具。项目总监Dana Yoerger拥有ABE原型车及其继任者Sentry的经验，完全有资格指导该项目。该项目的资金将允许该机构升级哨兵，以支持不同的深海科学研究。＊＊＊

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. ***