Path planning of autonomous underwater vehicles in current fields with complex spatial variability: An A* approach

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 194-198

  Garau, Bartolome ^a   Alvarez, Alberto ^a   Oliver, Gabriel ^b  

^a INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

Author keywords

A* searching; Autonomous vehicles; Ocean variability; Path planning

Indexed keywords

COSTS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; MOTION PLANNING; NAVIGATION; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES;

A; AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES; EDDY STRUCTURES; ENERGY SAVINGS; OCEAN VARIABILITY; OPTIMAL PATHS; SEARCHING;

UNDERWATER EQUIPMENT;

EID: 33846178711     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2005.1570118     Document Type: Conference Paper

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