Seabed-relative navigation by hybrid structured lighting

Advances in Unmanned Marine Vehicles

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 277-292

  Dalgleish, F ^a   Tetlow, S ^a   Allwood, R L ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autonomous underwater vehicle; CCD image; CCD image sensors; Filtered seawater; Hybrid structured lighting; Image sequences; Laser triangulation sensor; Navigational information; Region based tracker; Seabed relative navigation; Tank bottom; Underwater vehicles

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES; INFORMATION FILTERING; LIGHTING; NAVIGATION; SEAWATER; SURVEYING; TANKS (CONTAINERS); TRIANGULATION;

CCD IMAGE SENSORS; CCD IMAGES; IMAGE SEQUENCE; LASER TRIANGULATION SENSOR; NAVIGATIONAL INFORMATION; REGION-BASED; RELATIVE NAVIGATION; STRUCTURED LIGHTING; TANK BOTTOM; UNDERWATER VEHICLES;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 70350111358     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1049/PBCE069E_ch13     Document Type: Chapter

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