Environmental Impacts
Automated Animal Classification
Led by
Bing Ouyang, Ph.D.
Affiliated Home Campus:Harbor Branch
Affiliated Department: Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute
PROJECT
This summer, Shadi Bavar worked with Dr. Bing Ouyang and graduate student Yanjun Li (Leo) on materials research for the development of an underwater inflatable co-prime sonar array (UICSA), an underwater object detection system. The objective of this project is to build a hydrophone array which begins as a compact package and then, arriving at its subsea destination, inflates into a long rigid beam holding the sensors. Shadi investigated a range of water-expanding materials in search of an electricity-independent method of deploying the device and focused on one specific moisture-activated expanding foam. With its end use in mind, she ran a range of tests with the material to determine its characteristics and behaviors and received promising results. Her findings lay the groundwork for the future construction of a foam-inflated UICSA prototype.