Workshop: Community Input on Long-Term Deployments of Resident Autonomous Undersea Vehicles; University of Washington; April, 2018

University Of Washington, Seattle WA

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Abstract

This award provides funding to support a workshop that will focus on getting community input on long-term deployments of Resident-Autonomous Undersea vehicles. (R-AUVs). The workshop will look at the technical challenges and potential benefits of deploying a highly capable, next-generation R-AUV on the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) Cabled Array at Axial Seamount on the Juan de Fuca Ridge off Washington-Oregon. The workshop will serve as a forum for the open exploration of operational concepts and application spaces uniquely suited to R-AUV systems, with a goal of defining a roadmap leading to the deployment of such systems for a broad range of users. The proposed 2.5 day workshop will be held at the University of Washington in April 2018.