: !! Talk-00: ''iFrontSeat: A New Approach for Writing Extensible MOOS-IvP Frontseat-Backseat Payload Interface Drivers'' !!!!%color=#000000% '''Toby Schneider, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)''' Broadly, our goal at LAMSS is to develop a autonomy,sensing, and communications infrastructure that can operate on a heterogeneous collection of vehicles by splitting the system into two components: the "frontseat" and "backseat" computing systems. The "frontseat" is provided by the vehicle manufacturer and is typically proprietary. It is responsible for low level control of the vehicle. The "backseat" runs the high level autonomy (typically the IvP Helm), sensing, and communications (typically Goby) components. Restore July 00, 0000, at 00:00 PM by 000.0.0.0 - Changed lines 00-00 from: The NATO Undersea Research Centre is currently exploring system concepts for collaborative ASW using AUVs. As part of this effort the design of autonomy algorithms (behaviours) which are adaptive on Doppler-sensitive sonar signals is being pursued. MOOS-IvP is currently used onboard two Ocean Explorer AUVs which each have horizontal line arrays and accompanying CW signal processing software capable of converting acoustic signals into time-bearing-Doppler contacts. These contacts are fused with FM contacts within NURC's DMHT tracker. The fused CW-FM tracks are acted on by the behaviours implemented within the MOOS-IvP software architecture. In this talk we explore the performance of a behaviour which seeks to maximize the future Doppler on contacts of interest. The collaborative use of this behaviour with a second vehicle performing traditional FM processing is also considered. 