Cooperative localization for autonomous underwater vehicles

International Journal of Robotics Research

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 714-728

  Bahr, Alexander ^a   Leonard, John J ^a   Fallon, Maurice F ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomous underwater vehicles; Cooperative navigation; Mobile robotics; Sensor networks

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MODEM; ACOUSTIC NAVIGATION; ACOUSTIC RANGING; BANDWIDTH REQUIREMENT; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; COOPERATIVE LOCALIZATION; COOPERATIVE NAVIGATION; DATA EXCHANGE; DEAD RECKONING; MOBILE NETWORKS; MOBILE ROBOTICS; POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS; RANGE MEASUREMENTS; TARGET VEHICLES; TRAJECTORY-BASED;

EXPERIMENTS; MODEMS; NAVIGATION; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; ROBOTICS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SUBMERSIBLE MOTORS; SUBMERSIBLES; SURFACE TESTING; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS; UNDERWATER BALLISTICS; UNDERWATER EQUIPMENT; UNDERWATER STRUCTURES; WATER CRAFT; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES;

EID: 65949120423     PISSN: 02783649     EISSN: 17413176     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0278364908100561     Document Type: Article

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