Collapsible Underwater Docking Station Design and Evaluation

Page, Brian R.; Naglak, John; Kase, Caleb; Mahmoudian, Nina

doi:10.1109/oceans.2018.8604745

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“…c) Docking reliability (d): An important requirement of any AUV docking system is its reliability in successfully docking the AUV at the dock such that the dock can properly provide the necessary power and communication access to the vehicle. As a critical part of the system, docking reliability ultimately defines the success of the mission and vehicle operations [20]. To model docking reliability, we include variables including the AUV control fidelity, relative dock entry area, and docking tolerance.…”

Section: B) Monetary Cost (C)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Co-design Optimization for Underwater Vehicle Docking Systems

Wallen¹,

Jeske²,

Song³

2021

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The design of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) and their docking stations has been a popular research topic for several decades. Although many AUV and dock designs have been proposed, materialized, and commercialized, most of these existing designs prioritize the functionality of the AUV over the dock, or vise versa; there has been limited formal research in analytical optimization for AUV docking systems. In this paper, a multidisciplinary optimization framework is presented with the aim to fill this theoretical gap. We propose a co-design optimization method that optimizes multiple design parameters governing the archetype of an AUV and its docking system. Capturing the user design intents in the optimization process, the proposed method produces a set of optimal design parameters that satisfies a set of predefined bounds, constraints, and initial conditions. Three cases of design optimization are reported for different design intents. Each optimal design found in the three cases is compared to an existing system to show the validity of this design optimization framework.

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Section: B) Monetary Cost (C)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Co-design Optimization for Underwater Vehicle Docking Systems

Wallen¹,

Jeske²,

Song³

2021

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“…Their work combines an area coverage and an energy-depended control methodology to drive each AUV toward Proteus before the energy level becomes critical. Another effort on developing a system that facilitate autonomous docking and recharging is the design of charging stations [16,17]. This collapsible underwater docking system is light-weight and has a potential to be installed on Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs) ( Figure 1.2) or AUVs to convert these vehicles to mobile power delivery systems.…”

Section: Continuous Operation Utilizing Mobile Energy Replenishmentmentioning

confidence: 99%