STTR Phase I: Autonomous Undersea Systems Network (AUSNET)

这个小型企业技术转让（STTR）第一阶段项目将产生一个网络应用程序接口（API）规范和相关实施，称为自主海底系统网络（AUSNET），用于在低带宽动态网络环境中分布式控制机器人和/或传感器系统。AUSNET将允许扩展网络服务，专门针对独特的声学环境进行定制。提议的工作建立在新兴的自组织（自形成、自维护）网络协议的基础上。具体来说，平台应用程序将获得对网络生成和传播数据的访问，以及对实际网络协议的增强控制。这将在本地和网络范围内显著改善声学波段的使用。它还将对恶劣的水下环境具有很大的适应性。AUSNET的工作将通过以以前未探索的方式利用网络能力和基础设施，来检查和展示极大地增强应用层功能的潜力。第一阶段将进行可行性论证。第一阶段的开发环境将是一个模拟测试平台，计划在第二阶段过渡到实际操作环境。最大限度地发挥下一代灵活计算机网络潜力的工具市场是巨大的，并将超越当前的海洋学应用扩展到其他领域。

This Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I project will produce a network application programmer's interface (API) specification and related implementation, referred to as the Autonomous Undersea Systems Network (AUSNET), for the distributed control of robotic and/or sensor systems in a low bandwidth, dynamic network environment. AUSNET will allow expanded networking services specifically tailored to the unique acoustic environment. The proposed effort builds upon emerging ad-hoc (self-forming, self-maintaining) network protocols. Specifically, platform applications will gain access to network generated and propagated data, as well as enhanced control of the actual networking protocols. This will provide significant improvement both locally and network wide in the use of the acoustic band. It will also enable great adaptability to the harsh underwater environment. The AUSNET effort will examine and demonstrate the potential to greatly enhance application level functionality by exploiting network capability and infrastructure in previously unexplored ways. Phase I will result in a feasibility demonstration. The Phase I development environment will be a simulation testbed, with a transition to a live operational environment planned for Phase II.The market for tools that maximize the potential of flexible next-generation computer networks is significant and extends beyond the immediate oceanographic application into other domains.