Graphical Mission Specification and Partitioning for Unmanned Underwater Vehicles

- The use of Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs) has been proposed for several different types of applications including hydrographic surveys (e.g., mapping the ocean floor and exploring sunken wreckage), mine detection and identification, law enforcement (e.g., enforcing certain fishing regulations), environmental and pollution monitoring, and even performing surveys to find potential drilling locations on the ocean floor for the oil industry. Recently the idea of using multiple, cooperating UUVs to execute these missions has also been proposed. There are two main factors that dictate a particular mission's success. The first factor regards creating a mission that is free from errors, in terms of both syntax and semantics. The second factor deals with properly splitting a mission into a set of sub-missions and assigning each sub-mission to a group of UUVs. Even though tools have been developed to help reduce these potential problems such as high level mission programming language...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: JSW
• Authors: Gary Giger, Mahmut T. Kandemir, John Dzielski
• Keywords: JSW 2008, Ocean Floor, Operator, Unmanned Underwater Vehicles