MARIUS: An autonomous underwater vehicle for coastal oceanography

IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 46-58

  Pascoal, Antonio ^a,f,g,h   Oliveira, Paulo ^a   Silvestre, Carlos ^a   Bjerrum, Anders ^b   Ishoy, Anders ^b   Pignon, Jean Paul ^c   Ayela, Gerard ^d   Petzelt, Christian ^e  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b Autonomous Underwater Vehicles APS   (Denmark)

^c THALES   (France)

^d Sercel (Former ORCA Instrumentation)   (France)

^e CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^g INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS AND ROBOTICS   (Portugal)

^h NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomous underwater vehicles; Coastal oceanography; Mission management systems; Vehicle and mission control systems

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; OCEANOGRAPHY; REMOTE CONTROL; UNDERWATER EQUIPMENT; UNDERWATER PROBING;

COASTAL OCEANOGRAPHY; MARIUS AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLE;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0031360675     PISSN: 10709932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/100.637805     Document Type: Article

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