Mon Feb 2 17:26:57 EST 2009
Gavia AUV at UNH
Today we got to see the basic operation of a new (to us) Gavia AUV which the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping at the UNH shares with the University of Delaware.
Art Trembanis came to show us its bells and whistles. It has quite a few. Several things right out of the box impressed me.
- It runs Linux (RH9 I think).
- It has an ethernet backplane and each module has it’s own IP address.
- It has an SDK that will allow us access to the navigation state variables and, presumably the ability to enhance its smarts.
- It has an 802.11a(b?/g?) AP in a short sail on top so you can connect to it via WiFi.
- It can fall-back to Iridium when the WiFi doesn’t work, or even to a WHOI acoustic modem (I think our’s is the first to have a whoi modem.)