U.S.-Norway Planning Visit: Ice-Edge Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Mapping and Navigation Experiments in the Arctic

OISE 0942973克拉克通过这次国际规划访问，加州理工州立大学的克里斯托弗·克拉克将与挪威科技大学特隆赫姆生物站的盖尔·约翰森开展合作研究。 克拉克？克拉克？他在机器人方面的经验与他的挪威合作伙伴相得益彰？在北极海洋生物学方面的专业知识。他们打算共同采用新的自主水下航行器（AUV）导航控制策略，以便在挪威斯瓦尔巴特群岛的Ny-Alesund研究站附近的北冰洋冰缘沿着进行采样。目标是对极地地区的生物活性进行采样和表征。 在计划的演习期间，浮游生物传感器机器人提供的新信息应有助于为北冰洋特有的生态系统模型提供信息。 此外，这个跨学科小组进行的测试预计将改进AUV冰缘探测、位置估计和跟踪能力。 这次对斯瓦尔巴群岛的团队访问实现了通过使美国和欧洲的专家能够共享研究资源并在具有强烈共同利益和能力的领域规划有益项目来推进北极环境基础知识的计划目标。 更广泛的影响包括通过早期职业介绍对两名美国本科生和一名博士后参与者进行极地合作实地工作和海洋采样的培训。 这些经验将为这些初级研究人员提供一个有价值的介绍，介绍一个独特的北极网站，国际团队合作，并使用水下机器人。

OISE 0942973ClarkThrough this international planning visit Christopher Clark of California Polytechnic State University will initiate cooperative research with Geir Johnsen from the Trondheim Biological Station of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Clark?s experience with robotics complements his Norwegian partner?s expertise in Arctic marine biology. Together, they intend to employ new navigational control strategies for an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) to conduct sampling along the ice edge in the Arctic Ocean near Ny-Alesund Research Station in Svalbard, Norway. The goal is to sample and characterize bio-activity in the polar region. New information provided by robot plankton sensors during the planned exercises should help inform ecosystem models specific to the Arctic Ocean. Furthermore, tests conducted by this interdisciplinary team are expected to refine AUV ice-edge detection, position estimation and tracking capabilities. This team visit to Svalbard fulfills the program objective of advancing basic knowledge of Arctic environments by enabling experts in the United States and Europe to share research resources and plan beneficial projects in areas of strong mutual interest and competence. Broader impacts include the training of two U.S. undergraduate students and one post doctoral participant through an early career introduction to collaborative polar field work and oceanographic sampling. The experience will provide these junior researchers with a valuable introduction to a unique Arctic site, international teamwork, and use of AUVs.