Biogeochemical research with an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle: Payload structure and arctic operations

Wulff, Thorben; Lehmenhecker, Sascha; Bauerfeind, Eduard; Hoge, Ulrich; Shurn, Kimberly; Klages, Michaël

doi:10.1109/oceans-bergen.2013.6608043

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“…Developing new, or adopting existing sensing technology for mobile profiling platforms is challenging, as there are significant constraints on size, reagent consumption, power, response time, and requires well-characterized dynamic errors as the platform moves through the water column. Despite these challenges, there are some larger powered autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) that have been equipped with pCO 2 sensors [108] and initial test deployments of pH on gliders look promising [109,110]. Such regions will also likely require integration of overlapping vehicles and platforms to make best use of the tradeoffs in duration, capacity, and sensor capabilities of our available observing capabilities (Fig.…”

Section: Emerging Technologiesmentioning

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Observing Changes in Ocean Carbonate Chemistry: Our Autonomous Future

Bushinsky

Takeshita

Williams

2019

Curr Clim Change Rep

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Purpose of Review We summarize recent progress on autonomous observations of ocean carbonate chemistry and the development of a network of sensors capable of observing carbonate processes at multiple temporal and spatial scales. Recent Findings The development of versatile pH sensors suitable for both deployment on autonomous vehicles and in compact, fixed ecosystem observatories has been a major development in the field. The initial large-scale deployment of profiling floats equipped with these new pH sensors in the Southern Ocean has demonstrated the feasibility of a global autonomous open-ocean carbonate observing system. Summary Our developing network of autonomous carbonate observations is currently targeted at surface ocean CO 2 fluxes and compact ecosystem observatories. New integration of developed sensors on gliders and surface vehicles will increase our coastal and regional observational capability. Most autonomous platforms observe a single carbonate parameter, which leaves us reliant on the use of empirical relationships to constrain the rest of the carbonate system. Sensors now in development promise the ability to observe multiple carbonate system parameters from a range of vehicles in the near future.

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Section: Emerging Technologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Observing Changes in Ocean Carbonate Chemistry: Our Autonomous Future

Bushinsky

Takeshita

Williams

2019

Curr Clim Change Rep

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“…Figure 7. The vehicle was outfitted with a suite of physical and biogeochemical oceanographic sensors [156,157], and was tasked with collecting data in the meltwater front of the MIZ. Because the vehicle was operating in mid-water, navigation aiding was provided by a ship-mounted iXBlue GAPS USBL [8,9,158].…”

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Scientific Challenges and Present Capabilities in Underwater Robotic Vehicle Design and Navigation for Oceanographic Exploration Under-Ice

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This paper reviews the scientific motivation and challenges, development, and use of underwater robotic vehicles designed for use in ice-covered waters, with special attention paid to the navigation systems employed for under-ice deployments. Scientific needs for routine access under fixed and moving ice by underwater robotic vehicles are reviewed in the contexts of geology and geophysics, biology, sea ice and climate, ice shelves, and seafloor mapping. The challenges of under-ice vehicle design and navigation are summarized. The paper reviews all known under-ice robotic vehicles and their associated navigation systems, categorizing them by vehicle type (tethered, untethered, hybrid, and glider) and by the type of ice they were designed for (fixed glacial or sea ice and moving sea ice).

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“…11) with a special focus on water column studies in high latitudes and especially in the marginal ice zone [5]. PAUL is based on a type 21 vehicle of the American manufacturer Bluefin Robotics (Quincy Massachusetts).…”

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ROBEX - innovative robotic technologies for ocean observations, a deep-sea demonstration mission

Wenzhoefer

Wulff

Floegel

et al. 2016

OCEANS 2016 MTS/IEEE Monterey

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Abstract-Innovative robotic technologies are a key to study ocean processes in space and time. The work carried out during the ROBEX-Demonstration Mission on RV Polarstern will test the capability of new and innovative technologies, developed during the HGF Alliance ROBEX, in deep-sea environments. Investigations will include Arctic benthic and pelagic ecosystems strongly influenced by climate change, such as marine arctic sediments hosting gas hydrates and arctic deep-sea benthic communities. Different robotic platforms, including 3 types of crawler, glider, AUV, UAVs and senor systems (like Lab-on-aChip and multi-O2-profiler) are described and mission scenarios presented. The use of these new underwater technologies will improve our capabilities to improve our knowledge on the effects of climate change on the Arctic ecosystem and ocean observation.

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Biogeochemical research with an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle: Payload structure and arctic operations

Cited by 14 publications

References 21 publications

Observing Changes in Ocean Carbonate Chemistry: Our Autonomous Future

Observing Changes in Ocean Carbonate Chemistry: Our Autonomous Future

Scientific Challenges and Present Capabilities in Underwater Robotic Vehicle Design and Navigation for Oceanographic Exploration Under-Ice

ROBEX - innovative robotic technologies for ocean observations, a deep-sea demonstration mission

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