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Back Autonomous Wide Aperture Cluster for Surveillance (AWACS)

Fiscal Year 2009
Division Graduate School of Engineering & Applied Science
Department Oceanography
Investigator(s) Joseph, John E.
Sponsor Office of Naval Research (Navy)
Summary The primary objective is to build and test components and algorithms for an Autonomous Wide Aperture Cluster for Surveillance of quiet targets operating in complex littoral shallow water environments. Specific technical objectives are to:
- Explore the limits and capabilities of the REMUS Towed and Hull-Mounted Array Systems to autonomously detect, classify and localize quiet targets,
- Evaluate the current and develop new methods and capabilities of adaptive environmental and adaptive acoustical sampling, search and data assimilation techniques, including new adaptive data gathering schemes for optimal physical-acoustical-geoacoustical estimations,
- Develop mobile sources for in-situ TL measurements and for DCL testing
- Explore the limits of signal processing, with the emphasis on dynamic array control using a cluster of REMUS vehicles for adaptive DCL of quiet targets, based on improving probability of detection and reducing false alarm rate, and
- Explore and develop vehicle command and control methods based on adaptive environmental and acoustics sensing, and on models of vehicle and cluster behavior.
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