Coordinated control of an underwater glider fleet in an adaptive ocean sampling field experiment in monterey bay

Journal of Field Robotics

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 718-740

  Leonard, Naomi E ^a   Paley, Derek A ^b   Davis, Russ E ^c   Fratantoni, David M ^d   Lekien, Francois ^e   Zhang, Fumin ^f  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^f GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SAMPLING; AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER GLIDERS; AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES; CO-ORDINATED CONTROL; COLLECTIVE MOTIONS; COORDINATED MOTION; ENVIRONMENTAL SENSOR; FEEDBACK LAWS; FIELD EXPERIMENT; FIELD ROBOTICS; HETEROGENEOUS FLEET; IN-FIELD; MONTEREY BAY; MONTEREY BAY , CALIFORNIA; NUMBER OF VEHICLES; OCEAN SAMPLING; PREDICTION TOOLS; PROOF OF CONCEPT; STATISTICAL UNCERTAINTY; TEMPORAL SCALE; UNDERWATER GLIDERS;

AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES; DECISION MAKING; FLEET OPERATIONS; GLIDERS; MOTION CONTROL; MOTION PLANNING; OCEAN HABITATS; ROBOTICS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 78650160546     PISSN: 15564959     EISSN: 15564967     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rob.20366     Document Type: Article

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