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Marine GPS Search and Rescue System
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open in viewerWhen a person falls off of a large ship, it takes several minutes to assemble a rescue team, during which the person may be lost forever. To maximize the likelihood of rescue, a GPS-based rescue system was designed that could be automatically deployed. This system includes a small, battery-powered victim locating unit, designed to be installed on lifejackets; a rescue vehicle, which autonomously navigates to the victim using GPS; and a mothership host system, which provides navigation vectors to steer the rescue vehicle to the victim and back to the mothership successfully.
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- E-project-042811-121920
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- 2011
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- 2011-04-28
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- Major
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