Infrastructure for large-scale tests in marine autonomy
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2012.
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| author | Hummel, Robert A. (Robert Andrew) |
| author2 | Franz S. Hover. |
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| description | Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2012. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/704362019-04-09T19:18:15Z Infrastructure for large-scale tests in marine autonomy Hummel, Robert A. (Robert Andrew) Franz S. Hover. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Mechanical Engineering. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Mechanical Engineering. Mechanical Engineering. Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2012. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-147). This thesis focuses on the development of infrastructure for research with large-scale autonomous marine vehicle fleets and the design of sampling trajectories for compressive sensing (CS). The newly developed infrastructure includes a bare-bones acoustic modem and two types of low-cost and scalable vehicles. One vehicle is a holonomic raft designed for station-keeping and precise maneuvering, and the other is a streamlined kayak for traveling longer distances. The acoustic modem, like the vehicles, is inexpensive and scalable, providing the capability of a large-scale, low-cost underwater acoustic network. With these vehicles and modems we utilize compressive sensing, a recently developed framework for sampling sparse signals that offers dramatic reductions in the number of samples required for high fidelity reconstruction of a field. Our novel CS sampling techniques introduce engineering constraints including movement and measurement costs to better apply CS to sampling with mobile agents. The vehicles and modems, along with compressive sensing, strengthen the movement towards large scale autonomy in the ocean environment. by Robert Andrew Hummel. S.M. 2012-04-26T18:53:24Z 2012-04-26T18:53:24Z 2012 2012 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70436 785723792 eng M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 147 p. application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| spellingShingle | Mechanical Engineering. Hummel, Robert A. (Robert Andrew) Infrastructure for large-scale tests in marine autonomy |
| title | Infrastructure for large-scale tests in marine autonomy |
| title_full | Infrastructure for large-scale tests in marine autonomy |
| title_fullStr | Infrastructure for large-scale tests in marine autonomy |
| title_full_unstemmed | Infrastructure for large-scale tests in marine autonomy |
| title_short | Infrastructure for large-scale tests in marine autonomy |
| title_sort | infrastructure for large scale tests in marine autonomy |
| topic | Mechanical Engineering. |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70436 |
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