An Ocean Robot With A Winch? Examining a New Dimension in Unmanned Surface Vehicle Capabilities

For over 10 years, Liquid Robotics has pioneered development of long-duration, unmanned autonomous surface vehicles through its work on the wave and solar powered Wave Glider platform. While the long-range and extended durability capabilities of the Wave Glider have allowed users to make oceanographic and scientific measurements across nearly every expanse of the sea surface, those measurements have, outside of various acoustic signals, been limited to the top 10-20m of the ocean. In order to extend the capabilities of the system, Liquid Robotics developed a winch, allowing physical measurements at much greater depths and opening up a new dimension in autonomous surface vehicle data acquisition.

• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  OCEANS 2018 MTS/IEEE Charleston

• Publication date

  2018-10-01

• Fields of study

  Engineering, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1109/OCEANS.2018.8604535
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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