Terrain-based navigation for underwater vehicles using an ultrasonic scanning system

Advanced Robotics

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1181-1205

  Lygouras, John ^a   Kodogiannis, Vassilis ^b   Pachidis, Theodoros ^a   Liatsis, Panagiotis ^c  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Concurrent mapping and localization; Extended Kalman filter; Scanning sonar; Terrain based navigation; Underwater vehicle navigation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; NAVIGATION; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES; SCANNING; SUBMERSIBLES; ULTRASONICS; WATER CRAFT; WATER TANKS;

CONCURRENT MAPPING AND LOCALIZATION; EXTENDED KALMAN FILTER; SCANNING SONAR; TERRAIN-BASED NAVIGATION; UNDERWATER VEHICLE NAVIGATION;

CONFORMAL MAPPING;

EID: 50649120624     PISSN: 01691864     EISSN: 15685535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156855308X338429     Document Type: Article

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