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

提案编号：0644290PI：该奖项的YoergerFunding将通过引入和升级拟议的自主水下机器人(AUV)哨兵，极大地提高国家深潜设施(NDSF)的能力。哨兵将通过使用一种比目前的AUV更快、更深、更长的工具来扩大海洋通道，从而影响深海研究界，促进更大的科学成就。该运载工具将通过以下改进能力极大地扩大科学项目的范围：更大范围的海底勘测，在特定潜水范围内对动态海底系统进行天气观测的可能性，以及AUV与支持船之间(在时间和空间上)更长的间隔，这对海脊、大洋边缘和深海海底的研究是非常宝贵的。该运载火箭将支持无数的科学实验，使其成为真正的多学科海洋研究工具。项目主任Dana Yoerger完全有资格指导这个项目，他拥有Abe原型运载火箭及其继任者Sentry的经验。该项目的资金将使该机构能够升级哨兵，以支持不同的深潜科学研究。***

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. ***