Smart AUV-Based Magnetics (SAM)

The SAM package is a library to enable Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) equipped with a magnetometer to autonomously find and map anomalies in a time- and space-efficient way.

The software was developed at the Deep Sea Monitoring Group (DSM) of the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean research.

Build for an AUV equipped with magnetometers the software allows the AUV to:

• Identify potential anomaly points-of-interest (POIs) along a track (Analyzer)
• Use collected POIs to generate a list of finer lawnmower-patterns to map the collected points in detail (Clustering)