Ein Artikel mit dem Titel "AAS Endurance: An autonomous acoustic sailboat for marine mammal research" (Holger Klinck, Roland Stelzer, Karim Jafarmadar and David K. Mellinger) wurde für die International Robotic Sailing Conference von 6. - 12. Juli 2009 in Matosinhos (Portugal) eingereicht. Zeitgleich findet dort die Roboter Segel WM statt, an der InnoC als amtierender Weltmeister mit der "ASV roboat" teilnehmen wird. Wenn du uns nach Portugal begleiten möchtest, bitte melden.


Abstract

This paper presents a joint research project of the Austrian Society for Innovative Computer Science, Austria and Oregon State University, USA which is intended to be realised within the next three years. The aim of the project is to develop an autonomous sailboat for passive acoustic monitoring of marine mammals and mitigation of human impacts on them. Performance tests of the autonomous acoustic sailboat - AAS Endurance - will include an open sea transect of at least one month duration. The work presented here discusses shortcomings of current ways of acoustic marine mammal monitoring and outlines advantages of a robotic sailboat for this task, as well as problems to be solved with this new technology.