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

Clark通过这次国际规划访问，加州理工州立大学的Christopher Clark将与挪威科技大学特隆赫姆生物站的Geir Johnsen展开合作研究。克拉克?他在机器人技术方面的经验与他的挪威合作伙伴？他在北极海洋生物学方面的专长。他们打算共同为自主水下航行器（AUV）采用新的导航控制策略，在挪威斯瓦尔巴群岛新奥勒松研究站附近的北冰洋冰边进行采样。目的是采样和表征极地地区的生物活性。在计划中的演习中，机器人浮游生物传感器提供的新信息将有助于为北冰洋特定的生态系统模型提供信息。此外，这个跨学科团队进行的测试有望改进AUV的冰边缘检测、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推进北极环境基础知识的计划目标，使美国和欧洲的专家能够分享研究资源，并在共同感兴趣和有能力的领域规划有益的项目。更广泛的影响包括通过对合作极地野外工作和海洋采样的早期职业介绍，培训两名美国本科生和一名博士后参与者。这段经历将为这些初级研究人员提供宝贵的机会，让他们了解独特的北极地区、国际团队合作以及auv的使用。

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.