Regular CRUSER Exercise Operations at sea using NPS "Wave Glider"

USV#2 from Liquid Robotics

Don Brutzman, Alex Bordetsky, Duane Davis, Alan Jaeger

27 January 2014

Liquid Robotics

Liquid Robotics

Liquid Robotics

Research questions• How can WaveGliders become operational assets to support NPS research?• How can distributed teams monitor and control a remote asset

collaboratively using a mix of OPCON centers and Web-based access?• How can collected data assets be coherently recorded, archived, visualized

and reused over the long term, supporting student research and operational analysis?

• How might at-sea operations by unmanned systems best complement on-land research efforts being conducted quarterly by NPS and external partners in the Joint Interoperability Field Experiment (JIFX) series?

• What combination of network protocols best support distributed collaboration efforts? Can such approaches mimic the functionality of Navy test ranges or be adapted by Navy laboratories?

• What future steps are appropriate to steadily grow the capabilities and maximize the opportunities afforded by long-duration at-sea testing using the WaveGlider UUV in concert with other NPS unmanned systems (space, airborne, surface and submerged)?

Operating range

Project Milestone Tasks

• Task 1: Site Visits, Identify Data Requirements and Literature Review

• Task 2: Support Preparation • Task 3: Initial Operations • Task 4: Present Initial Findings• Task 5: Coastal Transits, Regular Operations• Task 6: Reports, In-Progress Reviews (IPR)• Task 7: Deliver Final Presentation and Report

Current activities

• Lab visit, 1 of 2 vehicles on board• 9 DEC, visit Liquid Robotics Mountain View• Website: NPS wiki (internal at first)• Identify overlapping goals, requirements• Build calendar of milestones, goal missions• Build list of potential purchases, etc.• Regular meeting schedule

Mission planning 2014

• Support NPS science missions• Explore multiple technologies and techniques

for mission preparation, operations, and post-mission data archiving (Brutzman, Davis)

• San Francisco Bay, Maritime Interdiction Operations (MIO) Exercises (Bordetsky)

• Port Hueneme – Homeland Defense and Mine Warfare Exercises (Jaeger)

NPS-KAIST mission in 2015?

• This robot can go very very far• Our primary 2014 goal at NPS is to show

regular operations without risk or difficulty• Perhaps we should consider proposing a joint

proposal for a trans-Pacific mission in 2015?