Autonomous underwater vehicle trajectory design coupled with predictive ocean models: A case study

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 4770-4777

  Smith, Ryan N ^a   Pereira, Arvind ^a   Chao, Yi ^c   Li, Peggy P ^c   Caron, David A ^b   Jones, Burton H ^b   Sukhatme, Gaurav S ^a  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT VELOCITY; DATA COLLECTION; FIELD TRIAL; FRESH WATER; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; INTELLIGENT PLANNING; MOBILE SENSOR NETWORKS; MOBILE SENSORS; MODEL PREDICTION; MOTION PLANNING PROBLEMS; NEAR-REAL TIME; OCEAN FEATURE; OCEAN MODEL; OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH; PATH-PLANNING; SCIENTIFIC MERITS; SIMULATION RESULT; UNDERWATER VEHICLES;

DATA ACQUISITION; FORECASTING; MOTION PLANNING; OCEANOGRAPHY; PLANNING; ROBOTICS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SUBMERSIBLES; TRAJECTORIES; UNDERWATER EQUIPMENT; WATER CRAFT;

AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES;

EID: 77955813553     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2010.5509240     Document Type: Conference Paper

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