Recent trends in control architectures for autonomous underwater vehicles

International Journal of Systems Science

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1033-1056

  Ridao, P ^a   Batlle, J ^a   Amat, J ^b   Roberts, G N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES (AUV);

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0032644694     PISSN: 00207721     EISSN: 14645319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/002077299291895     Document Type: Article

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