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Underwater Vehicles
Edited by Alexander V. Inzartsev, ISBN 978-953-7619-49-7, Hard cover, 582 pages, Publisher: InTech, Published: January 01, 2009 under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 license, in subject Robotics
DOI: 10.5772/107
For the latest twenty to thirty years, a significant number of AUVs has been created for the solving of wide spectrum of scientific and applied tasks of ocean development and research. For the short time period the AUVs have shown the efficiency at performance of complex search and inspection works and opened a number of new important applications. Initially the information about AUVs had mainly review-advertising character but now more attention is paid to practical achievements, problems and systems technologies. AUVs are losing their prototype status and have become a fully operational, reliable and effective tool and modern multi-purpose AUVs represent the new class of underwater robotic objects with inherent tasks and practical applications, particular features of technology, systems structure and functional properties.
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Book contents
- Chapter 1Some Issues on the Design of a Low-Cost Autonomous Underwater Vehicle with an Intelligent Dynamic Mission Planner for Pipeline and Cable Tracking
- Chapter 2Optimal Control of Underactuated Underwater Vehicles with Single Actuator
- Chapter 3Navigating Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
- Chapter 4Guidance Laws for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
- Chapter 5Enhanced Testing of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Using Augmented Reality & JavaBeans
- Chapter 6Bio-inspired Robotic Fish with Multiple Fins
- Chapter 7A Survey of Control Allocation Methods for Underwater Vehicles
- Chapter 8Making AUVs Truly Autonomous
- Chapter 9Nonlinear Control Methodologies for Tracking Configuration Variables
- Chapter 10Experimental Research on Biorobotic Autonomous Undersea Vehicle
- Chapter 11Computer Vision Applications in the Navigation of Unmanned Underwater Vehicles
- Chapter 12AUV Application for Inspection of Underwater Communications
- Chapter 13Thruster Modeling and Controller Design for Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs)
- Chapter 14Adaptive Control for Guidance of Underwater Vehicles
- Chapter 15An Autonomous Navigation System for Unmanned Underwater Vehicle
- Chapter 16Schooling for Multiple Underactuated AUVs
- Chapter 17MARES Navigation, Control and On-board Software
- Chapter 18Identification of Underwater Vehicles for the Purpose of Autopilot Tuning
- Chapter 19Chemical Signal Guided Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
- Chapter 20Development of Test-Bed AUV 'ISiMI' and Underwater Experiments on Free Running and Vision Guided Docking
- Chapter 21Trajectory Planning for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
- Chapter 22Environmental Impact Assessment and Management of Sewage Outfall Discharges Using AUV'S
- Chapter 23MiResolved Acceleration Control for Underwater Vehicle-Manipulator Systems: Continuous and Discrete Time Approach
- Chapter 24Studies on Hydrodynamic Propulsion of a Biomimetic Tuna
- Chapter 25Decentralized Control System Simulation for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
- Chapter 26Autonomous Underwater Gliders
- Chapter 27Cooperative Acoustic Navigation Scheme for Heterogenous Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
- Chapter 28Dynamic Modelling and Motion Control for Underwater Vehicles with Fins
- Chapter 29Fundamentals of Underwater Vehicle Hardware and Their Applications

