Planar flow model identification for improved navigation of small AUVs

Ocean Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 119-131

  Petrich, Jan ^a   Woolsey, Craig A ^a   Stilwell, Daniel J ^a  

^a State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomous underwater vehicles; Environmental mapping; Flow field identification; Underwater navigation

Indexed keywords

CONFORMAL MAPPING; CURVE FITTING; FLOW FIELDS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NAVIGATION; SUBMERSIBLE MOTORS; SUBMERSIBLES; TURBULENT FLOW; UNDERWATER BALLISTICS; UNDERWATER CONSTRUCTION; UNDERWATER EQUIPMENT; UNDERWATER STRUCTURES; VEHICLES; WATER CRAFT;

CONSTRAINED LEAST SQUARES; ENVIRONMENTAL MAPPING; FLOW FIELD MODELS; FLOW MODELS; FREE MODELS; IDENTIFICATION ALGORITHMS; LEAST SQUARES; LOCAL FLOWS; MEASUREMENT POINTS; NAVIGATION PERFORMANCES; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; PARAMETER IDENTIFICATION PROCESSES; PLANAR FLOWS; SIMPLE METHODS; SPARSE DATA SETS; UNDERWATER NAVIGATION; UNIFORM FLOWS; VEHICLE NAVIGATIONS;

AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES;

ALGORITHM; AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLE; FLOW MODELING; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; NAVIGATION; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 58149490771     PISSN: 00298018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2008.10.002     Document Type: Article

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