Sensor-based behavior control for an autonomous underwater vehicle

International Journal of Robotics Research

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 701-713

  Sattar, Junaed ^a   Giguëre, Philippe ^a   Dudek, Gregory ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptive gait control; Computer vision; Swimming robots; Symbolic languages; Underwater robotics; Visual human robot interaction; Visual servoing

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE GAIT CONTROL; SWIMMING ROBOTS; SYMBOLIC LANGUAGES; UNDERWATER ROBOTICS; VISUAL HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION;

AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; LINGUISTICS; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; SUBMERSIBLES; TARGET TRACKING; UNDERWATER EQUIPMENT; VISUAL COMMUNICATION; VISUAL SERVOING; WATER CRAFT;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 65949089023     PISSN: 02783649     EISSN: 17413176     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0278364908098560     Document Type: Article

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