Navigation technologies for autonomous underwater vehicles

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 581-589

  Stutters, Luke ^a   Liu, Honghai ^a   Tiltman, Carl ^b   Brown, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computational intelliqence; Navigation; Underwater vehicles

Indexed keywords

DIRECT ENERGY CONVERSION; ELECTRIC BATTERIES; FUEL CELLS; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN FUELS; NAVIGATION; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES; SUBMERSIBLE MOTORS; SUBMERSIBLES; UNDERWATER BALLISTICS; UNDERWATER CONSTRUCTION; UNDERWATER EQUIPMENT; UNDERWATER STRUCTURES; VEHICLES; WATER CRAFT;

AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES (AUV)]; AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES (AUVS); BATTERY CAPACITY; DATA COLLECTED; FEATURE RECOGNITION; FUTURE RESEARCH; HYDROGEN FUEL CELLS; LARGE AREAS; NEW APPROACHES; OPERATIONAL AREA; OPERATIONAL SYSTEMS; STATE OF THE ARTS; TETHERED VEHICLES; UNDERWATER ENVIRONMENTS;

AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES;

EID: 46849086341     PISSN: 10946977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCC.2008.919147     Document Type: Article

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