Enhanced Riverine Drifter Navy STTR FY2010.A Sol No.: Navy STTR FY2010.A Topic No.: N10A-T024 Topic Title: Enhanced Riverine Drifter Proposal No.: N10A-024-0555 Firm: C-2 Innovations, Inc 102 Peabody Dr Stow, Massachusetts 01775-1007 Contact: Arnis Mangolds Phone: (978) 298-5365 Web Site: www.c-2iinc.com Abstract: The proposed Autonmous Reactive Ferrrying Drifter (ARF-D) provides wide measured swath, autonomously maintains a buffer distance from close-shore snags, and by utilizing river flow provides a very low power approach to obtaining cross-river surveying, providing greater coverage with minimal power penalty. By randomizing the cross-river transit paths multiple ARF-D units will naturally overcome the same-path focus of passive drifters gaining greater coverage without the need for sophisticated and power intensive intra-drifter communication or formation keeping. Benefits: The proposed ARF-D system provides broad area coverage at minimum cost and by minimizing the likelihood of snagging it increases the likelihood of misison completion. The ARF-D uses proven components resulting in a low cost expendible design. Alternate payloads such as chemical sampling will permit low cost surveys of rivers for charaterization, monitoring changes to navigation and enviromental studies increasing the utility beyond strictly military engineering. Return