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    • Acoustic Communication Networks for Distributed Autonomous Underwater Platforms: Progress Report 

      Stojanovic, Milica (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sea Grant College Program, 2010-07)
      The ultimate goal of this project is to design and develop an experimental platform for testing and evaluation of mobile underwater acoustic networking. This report represents a cumulative summary of research and engineering ...

    • Adapting a Survey-Class AUV for High Resolution Seafloor Imaging 

      Morash, James; Damus, Robert; Desset, Samuel; Polidoro, Victor; Chryssostomidis, Chryssostomos (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sea Grant College Program, 2005)
      Over the past four years, development work at the MIT AUV Lab focused on a vehicle that is now almost a decade old. “Xanthos,” one of the last surviving examples of the venerable Odyssey II series of AUVs (developed at MIT ...

    • Adaptive Management for Impacts to Eelgrass Habitat in Gloucester Harbor 

      Wilbur, Anthony R.; Wilbur, Brandy M. M.; Colarusso, Phil (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sea Grant College Program, 2007)
      The Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sea Grant College Program, along with partners, led an effort to create an eelgrass bank, raise awareness of the value of ...

    • Affordable Deep Ocean Exploration with a Hovering Autonomous Underwater Vehicle: Odyssey IV: a 6000 Meter Rated, Cruising and Hovering AUV 

      Polidoro, V.; Desset, S.; Chryssostomidis, Chryssostomos; Hover, Franz S.; Morash, J.; e.a. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sea Grant College Program, 2005)
      The Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Laboratory (AUVLAB) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is currently building and testing a new, general purpose and inexpensive 6000 meter capable Hovering Autonomous ...

    • Architectural Model to Enable Power System Tradeoff Studies 

      Chryssostomidis, Chryssostomos; Chalfant, Julie; Hanthorn, David; Kirtley, James L., Jr.; Angle, Matthew G. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sea Grant College Program, 2011)
      We continue the development of an overall architectural model for an all-electric ship using a physics-based simulation environment to perform fully-integrated simulation of electrical, hydrodynamic, thermal, and structural ...

    • Architectural Model to Enable Power System Tradeoff Studies (PPT presentation) 

      Chryssostomidis, Chryssostomos; Chalfant, Julie; Hanthorn, David (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sea Grant College Program, 2011)

    • AUV NILM Update 

      Cox, Robert; Leeb, Steven B. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sea Grant College Program, 2009)
      Work on the AUV NILM project has proceeded along two main fronts: (1) NILM System Development; (2) Diagnostics for Li-Ion Batteries

    • AUVNetSim: a Simulator for Underwater Acoustics Networks 

      Montana, Josep Miquel Jornet (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sea Grant College Program, 2008-05)
      AUVNetSim is a simulation library for testing acoustic networking algorithms. It is written in Python and makes extensive use of the SimPy discrete event simulation package. AUVNetSim is interesting for both end users and ...

    • Ballast Water Exchange in the North Atlantic 

      Pederson, Judith; Fertig, Benjamin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sea Grant College Program, 2004)
      This white paper focuses on the regional component of ballast water management and specifically addresses concerns in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and Gulf of Maine. It summarizes vessel traffic and ballast water exchange in ...

    • Conserving Energy with No Watt Left Behind 

      Leeb, Steven B.; Kirtley, James L., Jr. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sea Grant College Program, 2011-04)
      Facilities managers for industrial and commercial sites want to develop detailed electrical consumption profiles of their electrical and electromechanical loads, including expensive physical plant for heating, ventilation, ...

    • Design and Performance of Odyssey IV: A Deep Ocean Hover-Capable AUV 

      Eskesen, Justin; Owens, Dylan; Soroka, Michael; Morash, Jim; Hover, Franz S.; e.a. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sea Grant College Program, 2009)
      The Odyssey IV class AUV was designed to fill the evolving needs of research and industry for a deep rated (6000 meter) vehicle, which is capable of both efficient cruising and precise hovering. This AUV is powerful enough ...

    • Design of the All-Electric Ship: Focus on Integrated Power System Coupled to Hydrodynamics 

      Prempraneerach, P.; Kirtley, James L., Jr.; Chryssostomidis, Chryssostomos; Triantafyllou, Michael S.; Karniadakis, George E. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sea Grant College Program, 2008)
      We present a detailed model of the integrated power system coupled to hydrodynamics that allows us to study global sensitivities in the All-Electric Ship. A novel element of our formulation is the stochastic modeling of ...

    • Development and application of distributed MEMS pressure sensor array for AUV object avoidance 

      Fernandez, Vicente Ignacio; Hou, Stephen M.; Hover, Franz S.; Lang, Jeffrey H.; Triantafyllou, Michael S. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sea Grant College Program, 2009-07)
      A novel sensory system is being developed for AUVs to augment current sensory systems for navigation and operation in difficult environments. These environments are frequently cluttered and murky with substantial flow from ...

    • Dual Ring Bus Electrical Distribution System for US Navy Destroyer- and Frigate-sized Vessels 

      Cooke, Chathan M.; Chalfant, Julie; Chryssostomidis, Chryssostomos (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sea Grant College Program, 2012-12)
      In response to a Request for Information from the Office of Naval Research regarding electrical architectures to be considered in an architecture evaluation study for two candidate hull forms including a 10,000 ton ...

    • Field Demonstration of a Real-time Non-intrusive Monitoring System for Condition-based Maintenance 

      Proper, Ethan; Cox, Robert W.; Leeb, Steven B.; Douglas, Keith; Paris, Jim; e.a. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sea Grant College Program, 2009)
      The performance of important electrical loads on mission critical systems like warships or off-shore platforms is often tracked by dedicated monitoring equipment. Individual monitoring of each load is expensive and risky. ...

    • Geographical Analysis of Ballast Water Data and Potential Threats of Invasive Species for the North Eastern United States 

      Dassuncao, Clifton (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sea Grant College Program, 2008-12)
      The globalization of consumer goods and natural resources has led to an unintentional increase in exchanges of native biota (Bright 1999, Barbier and Shogren 2004, Perrings et al. 2005). Organisms that were once constrained ...

    • Gradient-Free Stochastic Sensitivity Analysis of the Shipboard Power System 

      Prempraneerach, P.; Foo, J.; Triantafyllou, Michael S.; Chryssostomidis, Chryssostomos; Karniadakis, George E. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sea Grant College Program, 2008)
      Sensitivity analysis results are useful both for the early design stage – where the parametric space can be substantially reduced – but also in operating conditions, e.g. of the future electric ship, resulting in reduced ...

    • Gulf of Maine Strategic Regional Ocean Science Plan 

      Pederson, Judith (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sea Grant College Program, 2009-02)
      The Gulf of Maine Regional Ocean Science Initiative evolved from an awareness of the importance of integrated approaches to addressing ecological, environmental, and social influences in coastal and marine ecosystems at ...

    • Interim Report on S3D/LEAPS Integration 

      Chalfant, Julie; Ferrante, Matthew D.; Noble, James A. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sea Grant College Program, 2014-09)
      The Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division has created the Leading Edge Architecture for Prototyping Systems, or LEAPS, as the data repository for ship design, and a significant number of the early-stage ship ...

    • Lateral-Line Inspired MEMS-Array Pressure Sensing for Passive Underwater Navigation 

      Fernandez, Vicente Ignacio; Hou, Stephen M.; Hover, Franz S.; Lang, Jeffrey H.; Triantafyllou, Michael S. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sea Grant College Program, 2007-07)
      This paper presents work toward the development of a novel MEMS sensing technology for AUVs. The proposed lateral line-inspired sensor system is a high-density array of pressure sensors for measuring hydrodynamic disturbances. ...