Tracking in the Arctic

Collaborators: Ocean Engineering Dept. Sponsors: U.S. Navy

APL is the U.S. Navy's premiere provider of logistics for arctic exercises, including tracking and recovering test torpedoes. In 2009 APL began transitioning its tracking system from an analog to a digital platform. As part of that transition, I designed, implemented, and tested a timing pulse recovery algorithm that would run on digital hardware and provide accurate timing offset measurements to the new digital tracker. I also worked closely with hardware engineers to transition the software prototype to the final deployment platform. The algorithm worked flawlessly during 2009 U.S. Navy Arctic exercises. Because of this success, the digital system will be deployed as the primary tracker in future Arctic exercises. Read more about the APL Ice Station 2009.