Seafloor map generation for autonomous underwater vehicle navigation

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 3, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 145-168

  Johnson, Andrew E ^a,b,c   Hebert, Martial ^a,b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Sigma Pi Sigma ^*

Author keywords

Acoustic backscatter; Autonomous underwater vehicles; Elevation maps; Seafloor scattering models; Shape from shading; Sidescan sonar; Underwater mapping; Underwater navigation

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMAGING; ACOUSTIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; ALGORITHMS; BATHYMETRY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTION PLANNING; NAVIGATION; SONAR; UNDERWATER EQUIPMENT;

AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES (AUV); SEAFLOOR MAP GENERATION; SEAFLOOR SCATTERING MODELS; SIDESCAN SONAR; UNDERWATER MAPPING; UNDERWATER NAVIGATION;

ROBOTS;

EID: 0030164178     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00141152     Document Type: Article

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