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

Oise 0942973 Clark通过这次国际计划访问，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启动合作研究。克拉克？S在机器人方面的经验与他的挪威合作伙伴S在北极海洋生物方面的专业知识相辅相成。他们打算共同采用新的导航控制策略，让自主水下机器人(AUV)在挪威斯瓦尔巴特群岛NY-Alesund研究站附近的北冰洋冰缘进行采样。其目标是对极地地区的生物活性进行采样和表征。机器人浮游生物传感器在计划的演习期间提供的新信息应该有助于为北冰洋特有的生态系统模型提供信息。此外，这一跨学科团队进行的测试预计将完善AUV冰缘检测、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项目目标，即通过使美国和欧洲的专家能够共享研究资源，并在共同感兴趣和有能力的领域规划有益的项目，来增进对北极环境的基本知识。更广泛的影响包括通过早期职业介绍合作极地实地工作和海洋采样培训两名美国本科生和一名博士后参与者。这一经历将为这些初级研究人员提供宝贵的介绍，了解独特的北极地点、国际团队合作和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.