Toward a platform-independent acoustic communications and navigation system for underwater vehicles

MTS/IEEE Biloxi - Marine Technology for Our Future: Global and Local Challenges, OCEANS 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Webster, Sarah E ^a   Eustice, Ryan M ^b   Murphy, Christopher ^c   Singh, Hanumant ^c   Whitcomb, Louis L ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC COMMUNICATIONS; HOST COMPUTERS; MULTIPLE NODES; NORTH PACIFIC; REFERENCE CLOCK; SEA TRIAL; SOFTWARE PROGRAM; SOUTH ATLANTIC; SURFACE SHIP; SYNCHRONOUS COMMUNICATIONS; SYSTEM HARDWARE; SYSTEM SUPPORTS; UNDERWATER VEHICLES; WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTIONS;

COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; MARINE ENGINEERING; MODEMS; NAVIGATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; SHIPS; SUBMERSIBLE MOTORS; SUBMERSIBLES; UNDERWATER BALLISTICS; UNDERWATER EQUIPMENT; UNDERWATER STRUCTURES; VEHICLES;

UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

EID: 77951565383     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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