OTTER: The design and development of an intelligent underwater robot

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 3, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 297-320

  Wang, Howard H ^a,c   Rock, Stephen M ^a,d   Lee, Michael J ^b,e  

^a Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Department of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial for Computational and Mathematical Engineering   (United States)

^b MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics ^*

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

3D graphical user interfaces; Autonomous underwater robot; Control software architecture; Coordinated arm vehicle control; Task level control; Vision sensing system

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER VISION; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; INTELLIGENT CONTROL; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; MOTION CONTROL; ROBOTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; UNDERWATER EQUIPMENT;

AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER ROBOTS; OTTER UNDERWATER ROBOT;

ROBOTS;

EID: 0030164147     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00141161     Document Type: Article

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