In June 2007, the Center for AUV Research participated in the AUVFEST 07 exercise conducted by the Office of Naval Research (ONR). The objectives of the exercise (as far as this thesis work is concerned) were to demonstrate networked communications in a distributed autonomous vehicle system, and to demonstrate highbandwidth communications at long range using ScanEagle as a data communications relay. The experiments were conducted at Tyndall Air Force Base (AFB) where a section of the base has airspace over water. Of particular use, a short waterway between land and a barrier reef formed a simulation of a riverine waterway for the USV, SeaFox. Figure 17 shows an example of a ScanEagle flight path overlaid on the map of the pertinent section
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The Panama City experiment was conducted on 10 June 2007, and consisted of collaborative operations between UAV and USV and testing of the aerial communications relay performance from GCS to USV via ScanEagle, within the
The Panama City experiment was conducted on 10 June 2007, and consisted of collaborative operations between UAV and USV and testing of the aerial communications relay performance from GCS to USV via ScanEagle, within the