Moth-inspired chemical plume tracing on an autonomous underwater vehicle

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 292-307

  Li, Wei ^a,b   Farrell, Jay A ^a   Pang, Shou ^a,c   Arrieta, Richard M ^d  

^a University of California Riverside   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EMBRY RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Naval Command   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV's); Behavior based planning; Chemical plume tracing; Subsumption architecture

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MANEUVERABILITY; MOBILE ROBOTS; MOTION PLANNING; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES;

ADAPTIVE MISSION PLANNER; BEHAVIOR-BASED PLANNING; CHEMICAL PLUME TRACING; SUBSUMPTION ARCHITECTURE;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 33645825641     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2006.870627     Document Type: Article

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