Study of the dynamics of a submarine glider for oceanographic survey

• Grant number: 17/18746-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: December 01, 2017
• End date: November 30, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Naval and Oceanic Engineering
• Principal Investigator: Celso Pupo Pesce
• Grantee: Bruno de Barros Feitosa
• Host Institution: Escola Politécnica (EP). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Gliders are autonomous subsurface navigation platforms, with low energy consumption and great autonomy, capable of operating for months and covering distances of hundreds or thousands of nautical miles. During navigation, gliders perform vertical submergence and emersion trajectories, crossing columns of water with thicknesses typically between 50 m and 1000 m. Thus, when instrumented with sensors, gliders are ideal platforms for collecting three-dimensional marine environmental data in the ocean space. The present plan of research of Scientific Initiation aims at the development of a simplified mathematical model of the dynamics of a glider, applying it to existing units in the Institute of Oceanography of USP. (AU)