An automatic collision avoidance strategy for unmanned surface vehicles

Communications in Computer and Information Science

Volumn 98 CCIS, Issue PART 2, 2010, Pages 184-191

  Naeem, Wasif ^a   Irwin, George W ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

guidance and control; navigation; obstacle detection and avoidance; Unmanned surface vehicles

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC GUIDANCE; AUTONOMOUS GUIDANCE; BIASING SCHEME; GUIDANCE AND CONTROL; GUIDANCE SYSTEM; HAZARDOUS ENVIRONMENT; INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANISATIONS; LINE-OF-SIGHT; MARINE VEHICLES; OBSTACLE DETECTION; PRELIMINARY DESIGN; ROBUST NAVIGATION; SIMULATION RESULT; UNMANNED SURFACE VEHICLES; WAYPOINT GUIDANCE; WHOLE SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY CONSERVATION; INTELLIGENT COMPUTING; NAVIGATION; OBSTACLE DETECTORS; REMOTE CONTROL;

UNMANNED VEHICLES;

EID: 78149266034     PISSN: 18650929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15859-9_26     Document Type: Conference Paper

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