The Underwater Acoustics Tank Laboratory at the Instituto de Acústica, CSIC, has been recently reshaped. The new tank framework introduces the installation of two bridges with an automatic control on the three coordinates and the angle (Ranz & Cobo, 1998). In the last months the hardware and software necessary for sequencing the signal acquisition with the bridges motion has been incorporated. While being always necessary one operator, at the laboratory, to survey the tank activities, the actual structure allows to carry the full control of the tank motion as well as the signal acquisition out by any person, at any place, through the usual www network support. This paper describes the actual installation and the facilities involved.

The authors are willing to acknowledge the help given by the PN CYTMAR and to the CSIC for their financial support to enlarge the capabilities of the Hydroacoustic Tank of the Instituto de Acústica.

6 pages.-- PACS numbers: 43.58.-E, 43.30.-K.--Communication presented at the IV Encontro de Tecnología em Acústica Submarina (Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 10-12 Nov. 1999).

Peer reviewed