Abstract
The Thesaurus project, funded by the Tuscany Region, had among its goals the development of technologies and methodologies for archaeological search with Autonomous Underwater Vehicles working as a team in exploration missions. This has led to the design and realization of a new AUV class, the Typhoon, on the basis of the archaeological requirements, and of an appropriate acoustic simultaneous communication and localization scheme. The paper describes the project background, the technical characteristics of the Typhoon AUVs, and the field results in acoustic localization as obtained in the CommsNet13 cruise, led by the NATO CMRE (Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation), to which the Thesaurus project teams of the University of Pisa and Florence took part. In particular, the fields result reports the performance of acoustic localization through on-board USBL communicating with fixed modems placed in initially unknown locations.
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