AUV Workbench: Introduction

1. The NPS AUV Workbench supports physics-based AUV modeling and visualization of vehicle behavior and sensors in all mission phases.
   • Animation based on vehicle-specific hydrodynamics that can be configured to model arbitrary vehicles.
   • Models defined in X3D and VRML relying on Distributed Interactive Simulation Protocol allow visualization across networks utilizing custom software or off-the-shelf web browsers.
   • Virtual environment facilitates control algorithm development, control constant testing, mission generation and rehearsal, and replay of completed missions in a benign laboratory environment.
2. Graphical mission generation and data handling provides:
   • Automated generation of mission specifications using the XML-based Autonomous Vehicle Command Language (AVCL). This approach supports mission scripting, vehicle-to-vehicle, vehicle-to-agent, & vehicle-to-human communications, as well as storage of run-time telemetry data.
   • Automated conversion of AVCL mission into various arbitrary text-based AUV command languages using XSLT transformation.
   • Efficient serialization and transmission of generated imagery, telemetry and reports using XML Schema-based Binary Compression (XSBC) and Forward Error Correction (FEC) encodings.
   • Integrated sonar visualization capabilities.
3. XML-based Tactical Chat (XTC) provides open-source communications protocol among remote vehicles and individual operators, either in the virtual or real worlds.
   • Reliable asynchronous data transfer between AUVs, other vehicles, agents and human controllers.
   • Automatic logging of all communications in a schema-constrained XML format that facilitates data retrieval for post-mission-analysis and mission reconstruction.
4. AUV Workbench autoinstaller publicly available at https://savage.nps.edu/AuvWorkbench with poster online at https://www.movesinstitute.org/xmsf/projects/AUV/AUVWorkbench.jpg.
5. For more information, please contact Don Brutzman (brutzman@nps.navy.mil). These projects are produced as part of the Modeling and Virtual Environments & Simulation (MOVES) Institute and NPS Center for AUV Research, at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey California.

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