SiPLABoratory

UAN Eng. Test March 2010

This is an engineering test to take place off the port of Vilamoura (Portugal) by the end of March 2010 with the aim of testing the base station hardware developed under the UAN project. The base station is composed bya 16 hydrophone array, a telemetry unit and a Kongsberg modem. This system will be deployed as show in the figure, and communication signals will be transmitted from another boat using either the Kongsberg modem or a dedicated sound source. People involved from UALg: A. Silva, F. Zabel and C. Martins and maybe personnel from other UAN partners. [...more]

UAN'10 7-15 September 2010

This is a sea trial scheduled to take place in the South of Elba Island region (Italy) in the workframe of the UAN project. This test will comprise the deployment of a number of communication nodes including AUV's, fixed nodes and communication arrays in order to simulate an adhoc underwater acoustic network. It will involve efforts from various research groups at CINTAL (Portugal), ISME (Italy), Kongsberg (Norway), from NATO Undersea Res. Centre (La Spezia, Italy) and from the Italian Navy. People involved from UALg: S.M. Jesus, A. Silva, F. Zabel and C. Martins. [...more]