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Alexander Forrest, Environmental Engineer
http://www.pavilionlake.com/information/contributors/forrest.htm
Deepworker missions run til now have been a step forward in terms of human exploration of this lake. At the same time, the past couple of days have also been a step forward in terms of robotic exploration of this lake. One of my active interests in this project is evaluating mission success in terms of human robotic interaction. In order to quantify this, a number of scientific and performance metrics were decided upon in the first couple of days for the contouring style mission. The next step is to refine the analysis of the data in order to compare different deployments.
Concurrent to this work is the deployment of UBC-Gavia, an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), which has previously been deployed here during both summer and winter field campaigns. This is an autonomous vehicle in which waypoints are preprogrammed by the human operator to survey an area. As this style of underwater robot is outside of reliable communication range underwater, it navigates independently of surface control during the entire mission duration.
After several days, and weeks, of software and hardware testing of the instrument payload and navigation systems putting the AUV into the water was extremely satisfying. It was rewarding to run missions without any technical difficulties, but running these missions in conjunction to the Deepworker deployments is the first step to coordinated missions between autonomous and human driven exploration in extreme environments. Another facet of this research is we are using multiple robotic platforms for underwater human exploration. At the same time, it is also an important analogue for extraterrestrial research.
Alexander Forrest, Environmental Engineer
http://www.pavilionlake.com/information/contributors/forrest.htm
Deepworker missions run til now have been a step forward in terms of human exploration of this lake. At the same time, the past couple of days have also been a step forward in terms of robotic exploration of this lake. One of my active interests in this project is evaluating mission success in terms of human robotic interaction. In order to quantify this, a number of scientific and performance metrics were decided upon in the first couple of days for the contouring style mission. The next step is to refine the analysis of the data in order to compare different deployments.
Concurrent to this work is the deployment of UBC-Gavia, an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), which has previously been deployed here during both summer and winter field campaigns. This is an autonomous vehicle in which waypoints are preprogrammed by the human operator to survey an area. As this style of underwater robot is outside of reliable communication range underwater, it navigates independently of surface control during the entire mission duration.
After several days, and weeks, of software and hardware testing of the instrument payload and navigation systems putting the AUV into the water was extremely satisfying. It was rewarding to run missions without any technical difficulties, but running these missions in conjunction to the Deepworker deployments is the first step to coordinated missions between autonomous and human driven exploration in extreme environments. Another facet of this research is we are using multiple robotic platforms for underwater human exploration. At the same time, it is also an important analogue for extraterrestrial research.
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