Simulation and Rapid Prototyping Environment for Acoustic Communication Networks of Distributed Autonomous Underwater Platforms

Lead Pi: Milica Stojanovic · 03/2006 - 02/2008

Project Personnel:

MIT Sea Grant
Project number: 2006-R/RCM-18
Strategic Focus Area: Healthy Coastal Ecosystems, Safe and Sustainable Seafood Supply, Hazard Resilience in Coastal Communities
acoustic communications underwater networks rapid prototyping

Improved communications technology is critical for future ocean observation systems. Researchers in this project are developing a simulation and rapid prototyping environment called the reconfigurable modem (rModem) to allow acoustic communication between distributed autonomous underwater platforms and robots. Applications for this will include environmental monitoring, collection of scientific data, and efficient search and survey.