Active sonar-based bottom-following for unmanned underwater vehicles

Control Engineering Practice

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 459-468

  Caccia, M ^a   Bruzzone, G ^a   Veruggio, G ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Active sensing; Extended Kalman filters; Guidance systems; Motion estimation; Range sensing; Underwater vehicles

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; KALMAN FILTERING; LYAPUNOV METHODS; MOTION CONTROL; ROBOTICS; SENSORS; SONAR; SUBMERSIBLES;

ACTIVE SENSING; RANGE SENSING; UNMANNED UNDERWATER VEHICLES;

ELECTRONIC GUIDANCE SYSTEMS;

ACOUSTIC SENSOR; CONTROL SYSTEM; UNDERWATER VEHICLE; UNMANNED SUBMERSIBLE;

CONTROL SYSTEM; SEAFLOOR; SONAR; UNDERWATER VEHICLE; UNMANNED VEHICLE;

EID: 0032836123     PISSN: 09670661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0661(98)00168-3     Document Type: Article

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