Path planning of autonomous underwater vehicles for adaptive sampling using mixed integer linear programming

IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 522-537

  Yilmaz, Namik Kemal ^a   Evangelinos, Constantinos ^b   Lermusiaux, Pierre F J ^c   Patrikalakis, Nicholas M ^c  

^a Tigres Ltd Co   (Turkey)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive sampling; Autonomous ocean sampling Network (AOSN); Autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV); Data assimilation; Error subspace; Mixed integer linear programming (MILP); Monterey Bay; Ocean modeling; Ocean observing system; Path planning; Routing; Trajectory planning

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SAMPLING; AUTONOMOUS OCEAN SAMPLING NETWORK (AOSN); DATA ASSIMILATION; MIXED INTEGER LINEAR PROGRAMMING (MILP); MONTEREY BAY; OCEAN MODELING; OCEAN OBSERVING SYSTEM; PATH PLANNING; ROUTING; TRAJECTORY PLANNING;

DATA PROCESSING; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; LINEARIZATION; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEAN HABITATS; OCEANOGRAPHY; OPTIMIZATION; SAMPLING; SUBMERSIBLE MOTORS; SUBMERSIBLES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; UNDERWATER BALLISTICS; UNDERWATER EQUIPMENT; UNDERWATER STRUCTURES; VEHICLE ROUTING; WATER CRAFT;

AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES;

EID: 67349266750     PISSN: 03649059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JOE.2008.2002105     Document Type: Article

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