Long Baseline Acoustic Navigation Of Deeptowed And Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

Technology Description

UC San Diego inventors have devised a novel method for locating one or more deeptowed or autonomous underwater vehicles during geophysical or oceanographic surveys. The invention has the following features:

• Works in real time.
  
• Saves the time and cost of deploying, navigating, and recovering the seafloor transponder net.
  
• Has the navigation array move with the underwater vehicle, rather than remaining stationary.