Autori
Giovanni Indiveri
Abstract
WiMUST (Widely scalable Mobile Underwater Sonar Technology) is an H2020 research project funded by the European Community (Work Programme 2014 – 2015, LEIT- ICT, 5. Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies – Information and Communication Technologies). The project is a 36 month Research and Innovation Action (RIA) having as main objective to design and test a system of cooperating Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) for geotechnical surveying operations. In particular, the WiMUST system will be composed by a small fleet of AUVs carrying streamers equipped with hydrophones to acquire sub-bottom profiling acoustic data. Contrary to the classical technology based on ship towed streamers, the WiMUST solution will allow to change the geometry of the acoustic antenna by controlling the AUV formation.
