such as volumetric rate and absolute displaced volume are to
be designed such that the glider reaches a steady state glide
within 2/3 of the depth of IOT’s towing tank (tank depth: 7m).
In a next step we are going to perform vertical motion tests
in order to evaluate the performance the buoyancy engine.
After the completion of the design of the buoyancy engine
we are moving towards the hydrodynamic design of the glider.
The design philosophy is to be able to build several glider
hulls with significantly different hydrodynamic characteristics
and reuse the electromechanical “internals” of the glider. This
approach allows for experiments with uncommon designs such
as flying wings or hybrid gliders (added propeller propulsion,
see Figure 8) at a reasonable cost.
operations for the AOSN-II effort. In Section IV-A we describe
NRC-IOT’s role in developing an asset management tool for
a regional ocean observation modeling and prediction facility
in Newfoundland. Current efforts at NRC-IOT to develop a
laboratory-scale glider to support the above described effort