Autonomous underwater vehicles: Hybrid control of mission and motion

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 3, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 169-186

  Marco, D B ^a,b   Healey, A J ^a,b,c,d   McGhee, R B ^a,e  

^a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^b ASME

^c NPS Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Laboratory

^d IEEE

^e Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers

Author keywords

Autonomous; Hybrid control; Mission coordination; Petri nets; Prolog; Reactive; Sonar; Underwater vehicles

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONTROL SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT CONTROL; MOTION CONTROL; NAVIGATION; PETRI NETS; PROLOG (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); SONAR; UNDERWATER EQUIPMENT;

AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES (AUV); DISCRETE EVENT SYSTEMS; DYNAMIC CONTROL SYSTEMS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 0030167469     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00141153     Document Type: Article

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