Experimental results in synchronous-clock one-way-travel-time acoustic navigation for autonomous underwater vehicles

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 4257-4264

  Eustice, Ryan M ^a   Whitcomb, Louis L ^b   Singh, Hanumant ^c   Grund, Matthew ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR TOLERANCES; LENGTH SCALES; SYNCHRONOUS-CLOCK ACOUSTIC NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; UNDERWATER VEHICLES;

AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES; ERROR ANALYSIS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MODEMS; PACKET NETWORKS;

NAVIGATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 36348990833     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2007.364134     Document Type: Conference Paper

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