Sensor-driven online coverage planning for autonomous underwater vehicles

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1827-1838

  Paull, Liam ^a   Saeedi, Sajad ^a   Seto, Mae ^b   Li, Howard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptive mission planning; Autonomous underwater vehicles; Coverage path planning; Hardware in the loop (HWIL); Information gain; Mine countermeasure (MCM); Sidescan sonar (SSS)

Indexed keywords

HARDWARE; MINE SURVEYS; MOTION PLANNING; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; SENSORS; SONAR;

COVERAGE PATH PLANNING; HARDWARE IN THE LOOPS; INFORMATION GAIN; MINE COUNTER MEASURES; MISSION PLANNING; SIDE SCAN SONAR;

AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES;

EID: 84898598995     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2012.2213607     Document Type: Article

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