Girona 500 AUV: From survey to intervention

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 46-53

  Ribas, David ^a   Palomeras, Narcís ^a   Ridao, Pere ^a   Carreras, Marc ^a   Mallios, Angelos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV); intervention AUV; vehicle design

Indexed keywords

DESIGN APPROACHES; INTERVENTION AUV; SEA FLOOR; VEHICLE DESIGN;

SUBMERSIBLES; SURVEYS; UNDERWATER EQUIPMENT; WATER CRAFT;

AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES;

EID: 84855946275     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2011.2174065     Document Type: Review

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