Proceedings of the 10th Convention of the
European Acoustics Association
Forum Acusticum 2023


Politecnico di Torino
Torino, Italy
September 11 - 15, 2023





Session: A19-05: Underwater Soundscapes, Acoustical imaging and Mapping
Date: Friday 15 September 2023
Time: 12:00 - 12:20
Title: Fully Automated MCM Missions with Heterogeneous Autonomous Assets during REP(MUS)22 and DYMS22
Author(s): Y. Pailhas, STO CMRE, Viale S. Bartolomeo, 400, 19126 La Spezia, Italy
T. Furfaro, STO CMRE, Viale S. Bartolomeo, 400, 19126 La Spezia, Italy
C. Strode, STO CMRE, Viale S. Bartolomeo, 400, 19126 La Spezia, Italy
T. Berthomier, STO CMRE, Viale S. Bartolomeo, 400, 19126 La Spezia, Italy
S. Vasoli, STO CMRE, Viale S. Bartolomeo, 400, 19126 La Spezia, Italy
A. Xenaki, STO CMRE, Viale S. Bartolomeo, 400, 19126 La Spezia, Italy
B. D'Alès, STO CMRE, Viale S. Bartolomeo, 400, 19126 La Spezia, Italy
Pages: 6107-6113
DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.61782/fa.2023.0674
PDF: https://dael.euracoustics.org/confs/fa2023/data/articles/000674.pdf
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Abstract

In September 2022, CMRE participated to the REP(MUS)22 and DYMS22 exercises in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Portugal. The CMRE Autonomous Naval Mine Counter Measures (ANMCM) program joined the two exercises with the deployment of two MCM autonomous underwater assets: MUSCLE equipped with high resolution SAS for large area survey and BIONDo AUV equipped with a high resolution FLS for target identification. The CMRE MCM team aimed to demonstrate the full MCM chain from area survey, with automatic detection and classification, to target identification and reporting using autonomous vehicles. A strong emphasis was put on the collaborative aspect of a MCM mission and in particular on data sharing between heterogeneous systems. This talk will showcase all the recent CMRE advancements in autonomous MCM operations which have been demonstrated during the trials. These advancements include automatic planning with or without prior knowledge, online adaptive automatic target recognition, online seabed characterisation and residual risk map computation, newly developed standardized messaging protocol to promote interoperability and interchangeability, automatic tasking and automatic human readable report generator.