UAVs and AUVs, ROVs, are all similar in abilities

From: Lance (Technology Review)
Date: 06 Aug 2003
Time: 23:19:39
Remote Name: 66.82.48.1

Comments

As we study the AUVs and the UAVs it is interesting that the only real difference is the medium in which they interact. The fluid of H20 or in the airflows of the atmosphere. But in reality a AUV operating in the under ice oceans of Europa they would be quite similar characteristics and a hybrid of both might be used on Jupiter. Every technique we have discussed on this board with UAVs as far as launching from aircraft, balloons, and the ground, could be done launching from boats, ocean bases, subs or launching platforms from oil rigs or SeaLaunch systems for satellite launching. An engine or motor used to guide a torpedo might be the same as one used to power a light weight UAV in the atmosphere, the difference being only the propellor or certain components of the propulsion device. When we talk about swarms of UAVs, we could be talking about schools of AUVs. When we talk about battery systems, solar panels, Hydrogen fuel cell powered UAVs, we can apply each and everyone of those to the the AUV concept. When we talk about terrain following by way of sound, electronic eyes and GIS, we may a swell be talking about sonar, visual recognition and Depth topography. I would not be concerned that anything is impossible, because as we will find in Jupiter where the air and sea are a slower transition and not as definable as they are or appear to be on, based on our unit of measurement on Earth. Multiple AUVs swiming together can do what Lance Armstrong and his team do to concerve energy, they can trade the lead position to reduce the drag of the water, each one taking the pole position so that the energy of the group can be conserved and able to recharge, by using gliding techniques and propellers facing the relative water flow caused by the speed to recharge batteries. There would also be a synergy affect which is often seen in nature which has probably been the reason for evolved species to form social interaction. See some of these pictures; http://www.popsci.com/popsci/flat_files/science/sci0403sub_gallery/slide01.html ------ http://my.fit.edu/~swood/Dissertation.html ----- http://www.spawar.navy.mil/robots/pubs/uust9.pdf

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