GLINT in the eye: NURC explores novel autonomous concepts for future ASW

摘要

The La Spezia-based NATO Undersea Research Centre (NURC) has completed a major trial, known as GLINT09 (Generic Littoral Interoperable Network Technology), to investigate the exploitation of autonomous unmanned vehicles (AUVs) as part of a future anti-submarine warfare (ASW) operational construct.rnThe experiment, conducted in mid-2009, is judged to have been an important step towards the long-term goal of a fully functioning collaborative ASW system. NURC is planning to conduct a networked wide-area system demonstration in the 2011-12 timeframe, with the expectation that a deployable capability could be operational in the period 2020-25.rnNURC's Co-operative ASW (CASW) project has set out to investigate and demonstrate how a heterogeneous system of sensors could be used in an underwater network to carry out autonomous detection, localisation, tracking and classification within the underwater battlespace.