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ORE Seminar: Hydrodynamic Wake Tracking for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles ...

Aquatic animals use their lateral line systems to detect and interpret hydrodynamic disturbances in their surrounding environment, enabling behaviors such as prey detection, schooling, and rheotaxis. Among these disturbances are the hydrodynamic wakes generated by swimming bodies, which often contain coherent vortex structures that carry information about the location and motion of their source. Inspired by these biological sensing capabilities, artificial lateral line systems offer a promising approach for passive environmental sensing in autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). Extracting information from hydrodynamic wakes using pressure measurements could enable AUVs to detect, characterize, and ultimately track underwater targets without relying on active sensing systems. This research investigates the use of differential-pressure measurements for hydrodynamic wake detection and characterization, with the long-term objective of developing autonomous wake-following capabilities. // Gary A. Glass Jr, PhD Candidate, ORE, ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵ Manoa

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Ocean and Resources Engineering, Mānoa Campus

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