A multi-sensor approach to automatic tracking of midwater targets by an ROV

Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages 3631-3640

  Plotnik, Aaron M ^a,b,c   Rock, Stephen M ^a,b,c  

^a Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Department of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial for Computational and Mathematical Engineering   (United States)

^b Durand Building ^*  (United States)

^c AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; CONTROL SYSTEMS; MARINE BIOLOGY; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; WATER CRAFT;

AUTOMATIC TRACKING; CONTROL LOOPS; MIDWATER OCEAN ANIMALS; TRACKING VEHICLE;

REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES;

EID: 29744470434     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2005-6198     Document Type: Conference Paper

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