Underwater Glider (Pilot)
With this Foundational Underwater Glider Pilot microcredential presented by Rutgers University, recipients received hands-on experience using underwater glider technologies and piloting.
Skills / Knowledge
- Software - General Programming
- COM ports and serial communication
- Configuring radio communications
- shell/pico vs GliderDos vs lab_mode
- file types, different file transfer commands
- Basics of mission structure (yo, surfacing reasons, sensor sampling, goto-list, aborts)
- Waypoints
- Navigation hazards at sea including bathymetry, shipping traffic, fishing activity, offshore infrastructure etc.
- Recognizing aborts
- Awareness of strong currents and eddies and their potential effect on mission performance