A. Caiti, acaiti@dsea.unipi.it
ISME, Universita di Genova, Via Opera Pia, 16145 Genova, Italy
T. Husoy, thor.husoy@kongsberg.com
Kongsberg Maritime AS, Strandpromenaden 50, 3183 Horten, Norway
S.M. Jesus, sjesus@ualg.pt,
ISR, Universidade do Algarve, Campus de Gambelas, PT-8005-139 Faro, Portugal.
I. Karasalo, ilkka.karasalo@foi.se
FOI, Gullfossgatan 6, 16490 Kista, Sweden
R. Massimelli, massimelli@selex-se.com
SELEX SI, Via Hermanda 6b, 16154 Genova, Italy
A. Munafò, munafo@dsea.unipi.it
ISME, Universita di Genova, Via Opera Pia, 16145 Genova, Italy
Tor Arne Reinen, tor.a.reinen@sintef.no
SINTEF, Strindvein 4, 7465 Trondheim, Norway
and
A. Silva, asilva@ualg.pt
ISR, Universidade do Algarve, Campus de Gambelas, PT-8005-139 Faro, Portugal.
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Ref.: IFAC - PapersOnline, vol #9 (Part 1), pp. 220-225, Arenzano (Italy), July 2012.
Abstract
The EU-funded project UAN - Underwater Acoustic Network aims at conceiving, developing and testing at
sea an innovative and operational concept for integrating in a unique communication system submerged,
surface and aerial sensors with the objective of protecting off-shore and coastline critical
infrastructures. A crucial aspect of the project consisted in the use of autonomous underwater
vehicles (AUVs) as mobile nodes in the underwater acoustic communication network. In particular,
AUVs have the role of adapting the network geometry to the variation of the acoustic channel.
This paper reports on the project concept and vision as well as on the progress of its various
development phases. The recent at-sea successes that have been demonstrated within the UAN
framework are detailed and results of the final UAN project demonstration, UAN11, held in
the May of 2011, are reported. The UAN network was in operation for five continuous days
with up to five nodes, of which three of them were mobile nodes.