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@inproceedings{spears2014, title = {Design and development of an under-ice autonomous underwater vehicle for use in Polar regions}, booktitle = {2014 OCEANS - St. John's}, author = {Anthony Spears and Ayanna M. Howard and Britney Schmidt and Matthew Meister and Michael West and Thomas Collins}, pages = {1-6}, month = {September}, year = {2014}, keywords = {autonomous underwater vehicles;geophysics computing;hydrological equipment;middleware;Antarctica;Earth ice shelves;Europa;Icefin autonomous underwater vehicle;Jupiter moon;MOOS middleware framework;environmental challenges;extreme temperatures;full sensor suite;hardware design;human diver deployments;manned submarines;modular man portable vertically deployed vehicle;polar regions;scientific data collection;small ice hole;software design;software suite;under-ice autonomous underwater vehicle;under-ice environment;under-ice missions;unmanned underwater vehicle deployment;Antarctica;Computers;Ice;Sea surface;Sonar;Underwater vehicles;Vehicles;AUV; Antarctica;MOOS;UUV;autonomous;sonar; under-ice;underwater;unmanned}, abstract = {Presented here is the initial hardware and software design of the Icefin autonomous underwater vehicle for use in under-ice missions in Antarctica. Exploration of the ocean beneath hundreds of meters of ice in Antarctica is a difficult task. However, many areas of science are interested in obtaining data from this environment and other similar environments including Jupiter's moon Europa. Deployment of an unmanned underwater vehicle to obtain data beneath Earth's ice shelves is much less dangerous and expensive than manned submarines or human diver deployments. However, the under-ice environment presents many unique challenges for an unmanned underwater vehicle including deployment through a small ice hole and extreme temperatures. The Icefin vehicle is designed as a modular, man portable, vertically deployed vehicle able to withstand the environmental challenges of the Polar Regions and the extreme depths required for the missions of interest. The Icefin has been designed with a full sensor suite to facilitate the necessary scientific data collection. The software suite used by the vehicle is designed around the MOOS middleware framework. This vehicle is slated to be deployed in Antarctica starting October 2014.}}