We believe that the future of marine sensing lies in teams of cooperative autonomous assets working together to provide a coherent picture of the operating environment. The assets may be fixed or mobile platforms, both underwater and on the surface. Although several different research projects at ARL contribute important technologies towards achieving this vision, the STARFISH research program ...

This paper proposes an algorithm that provides operational strategies for multiple tethered autonomous underwater vehicle (T-AUV) systems entanglement-free navigation. T-AUVs can perform tasks under reliable communication and power supply, which is the most substantial benefit of their operation. Thus, if one overcome entanglement issues while utilizing vehicles, potential applications system i...

This chapter discusses the development of a short range acoustic communication channel model and its properties for the design and evaluation of MAC (Medium Access Control) and routing protocols, to support network enabled Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV). The growth of underwater operations has required data communication between various heterogeneous underwater and surface based communica...