Chemical Plume Tracing Experimental Results with a REMUS

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Abstract

Olfactory-based mechanisms have been hypothesized for biological behaviors including foraging,

mateseeking, homing, and host-seeking. Typically, olfactorybased mechanisms proposed for

biological entities combine a large-scale orientation behavior based in part on olfaction with a

multisensor local search in the vicinity of the source.

Long-range olfactory based search is documented in moths at ranges of 100-1000 m and in

Antarctic procellariiform seabirds over thousands of kilometers. Autonomous underwater vehicles

(AUVs) capable of such chemical plume tracing feats would have applicability in searching for

environmentally interesting phenomena, unexploded ordinance, undersea wreckage, and sources of

hazardous chemicals or pollutants.