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Unmanned Vehicles for Autonomous Sensing and Sampling (UVASS)
Call year: 2015
Status: active
IADC_id: 25
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The goal of the UVASS (Unmanned Vehicles for Autonomous Sensing and Sampling) project is to use UMVs (Unmanned Marine Vehicles) i.e ROVs (Remotely Operated Vehicles), AUVs (Unmanned Underwater Vehicles) and USVs (Unmanned Surface Vehicles) for performing atmospheric and sea-ice data sensing and sampling in dangerous places (i.e. close to fronts/tongues of glaciers) either difficult to access or not accessible to human beings.rnIn the last 20 years the “Autonomous robotic systems and control” group of CNR-ISSIA UoS Genova has been developing a small fleet of UMVs (Romeo ROV, Charlie USV, SHARK ROV) that have been extensively used for collecting scientific data during scientific campaigns performed everywhere in the world and that have also already been successfully exploited in Polar Regions.rnAll CNR-ISSIA's unmanned vehicles are equipped with a sophisticated control system that allows various working modes (manual, semi-automatic and automatic) and can also be remotely controlled by means of a control station (command console).rnIn the case of the UVASS project the CNR-ISSIA, in cooperation CNR-ISMAR, CNR-IAMC and CNR-ISAC, will endow its UMVs with additional sensors and samplers that will be used for perfoming atmospheric and sea-ice data collection in areas either difficult to access or not accessible to human beings. Possible places of interest could be the stratches of sea in the front of the Kronebreen, Conwaybreen and Kongsbreen glaciers. In the following the GPS coordinates of the vertices of two quadrilaterals delimiting the areas of interest are given.rnrnArea near Kronebreen glaciersrnA) 78°53'35"N 12°30'11"ErnB) 78°53'26"N 12°33'10"ErnC) 78°52'8"N 12°31'33"ErnD) 78°52'24"N 12°28'43"ErnrnArea near Conwaybreen and Kongsbreen glaciersrnE) 78°59'33"N 12°30'25"ErnF) 78°58'32"N 12°34'24"ErnG) 78°58'6"N 12°31'51"ErnH) 78°59'12"N 12°26'55"ErnrnDuring the scientific campaign, the following sensors/samplers will be used:rn- one Tritech PA500 echosunder for acquiring bathimetric data provided by CNR-ISSIA;rn- one Idronaut Ocean Seven 305 CTD (Conductivity Temperature and Depth) multiprobe sensor for performing water data sensing provided by CNR-ISSIA;rn- one pyrometer provided by CNR-ISMAR;rn- one water data sampler provided by CNR-IAMC (for study of microbial biomass and bacteria respiractory activity).rnAll the data collected by the above mentioned devices will be integrated with the UMVs telemetry (for having all data synchronized and geolocalized). During the surveys the collected data will also be made accessible in real-time to the end user so that he/she will be able to modify the sampling area according to the acquired data (adaptive sampling).rnDue to the criticality of the application, the communication link between the console and the UMVs will be made redundant and it will be performed by means of at least two different communication systems chosen from the following list:rn- 2.4 GHz WI-FIrn- 902-928 MHz Ethernet radiorn- 435–450 MHz radio-modemrn- 436 MHz radio-modemrn- 169 MHz radio-modemrnThe scientific campaign in 2015 will be performed with the small size USV SHARK and will be propedeutic to a more exhaustive one performed in 2016 with the larger and more performant USV Charlie.
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CNR-ISMAR, CNR-IAMC, CNR-ISAC
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