The AUV group from Cal Poly is still in Cordova, but they have been getting out during the day. Today we ran a short Remus run from a very freshwater area across a front to a salty area. We then we ran down to test the glider once more before releasing it. We were a bit brave and launched it near shore for a short test flight. It didn't manage to go very far and when it came up it went against the wind straight for a set of rocks. Rutgers probably doesn't want to know how close to the rocks the system got before we were able to get to it. Unfortunately we don't have pictures because we were kind of busy trying to get it to safety. We picked it up and got lucky in that the weather let us out to the middle of the channel where we released the glider. It seemed to be struggling to go with the tide to head to the central sound.
The weather continues to go downhill here, but we are hoping to sneak out in the morning and find a protected spot to send the Remus out for the day.
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A Remus matlab and ascii file from the above deployment can be grabbed here:
ReplyDeletehttp://penguin.sfos.uaf.edu/output/pws/Robbins/Remus/20090721/