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AUV Applications in Massachusetts Bay:
An Assessment of Current and Potential Opportunities
| 题名： | AUV Applications in Massachusetts Bay: An Assessment of Current and Potential Opportunities |
| 作者： | orter Hoagland Arthur G. Gaines and Mary E. Schuiiiacher |
| 关键词： | applications；current；assac；assess；tial；ssme；oppo；mass；niti；tent |
| 摘要： | The commercial potential of the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) is now just beginning to be realized in the fields of environmental monitoring, oceanographic sampling, and undersea search and survey. The AUV was initially conceived as a naval ordnance delivery technology (torpedo), but its possible uses have expanded with revolutions in microelectronics, confuting, sensing, battery technologies, acoustics, and miniaturization. MTTs Odyssey II vehicle exemplifies progress in this area. Even with these advances, however, we regard the AUV technology as still in the infancy of its commercial potential. In this report, we examine the potential opportunities — both public and private — for the application of AUV technologies in Massachusetts Bay. Our examination involves interviews with a number of experts in the AUV field as well as a survey of natural resource managers and ocean users in Massachusetts Bay. The common opinion we have encountered in the course of this study is that, at present, few if any existing research questions or monitoring tasks specifically concerning Massachusetts Bay, including the Boston Harbor Outfall Project, can be better addressed using AUVs than with conventional technology. This conclusion results in part from the fact that traditional research questions and monitoring tasks are themselves posed in terms of conventional technology. Nevertheless, a prime opportunity offered by the Boston Harbor Outfall study is to frame new questions and paradigms to demonstrate the applications of AUVs. Given the backdrop of existing monitoring infrastructure associated with this project, MIT Sea Grant might issue a challenge to proponents of AUVs to demonstrate the suite of new capabilities, insights, economies, and needed technologies. With appropriate support, such a challenge could do much to advance the use of this class of vehicle. |
| 报告类型： | 科技报告 |
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