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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.}}