The hybrid glider/AUV folaga: Field experience at the GLINT'08 experiment

IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 31-44

  Caffaz, Andrea ^a   Caiti, Andrea ^b   Casalino, Giuseppe ^a   Turetta, Alessio ^c  

^a GraalTech ^*  (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Autonomous underwater vehicles; Gliders; Oceanographic sampling

Indexed keywords

ACTUATION MECHANISM; AUTONOMOUS BEHAVIORS; BANG-BANG CONTROL; COMMUNICATION CAPABILITIES; CONTROL ALGORITHMS; CONTROL LEVEL; CONTROL SUBSYSTEMS; DESIGN DEVELOPMENT; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FIELD EXPERIENCE; FINE PITCH; METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH; NETWORKING INFRASTRUCTURE; OCEANOGRAPHIC SAMPLING; OPERATIONAL CAPACITY; PITCH ERRORS; VEHICLE DYNAMICS;

ALGORITHMS; BANG BANG CONTROL SYSTEMS; GLIDERS; SUBMERSIBLE MOTORS; SUBMERSIBLES; UNDERWATER BALLISTICS; UNDERWATER EQUIPMENT; UNDERWATER STRUCTURES; WATER CRAFT;

AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES;

EID: 77949604607     PISSN: 10709932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MRA.2010.935791     Document Type: Article

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