Roberts G., Sutton R. (Eds.) Advances in unmanned marine vehicles

London: Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2008. 441 p. — ISBN (10 digit) 0 86341 450 8, ISBN (13 digit) 978-0-86341-450-3.This book covers aspects of navigation guidance and control of UMVs. A wide range of vehicle types and applications are presented, together with a wide range of innovative approaches and techniques for enhancing the performance of UMVs. There are many challenges for the future and whilst it is difficult to predict in which particular areas, and when, advance will be made, it is clear that improvements in a number of areas are imminent. In particular advances in areas such as underwater communications, battery technology, fuel cells, propulsion systems, autonomous underwater docking, sensor fusion and swarms will impact on the future use and deployment of UMVs.Guidance and control of UMVs and associated technologies is therefore a very active and productive research area, and it is clear that significant advances will be made.Editorial: navigation, guidance and control of unmanned marine vehicles
Nonlinear modeling, identification and control of UUVs
Guidance laws, obstacle avoidance and artificial potential functions
Behaviour control of UUVs
Thruster control allocation for over-actuated, open-frame underwater vehicles
Switching-based supervisory control of underwater vehicles
Navigation, guidance and control of the Hammerhead autonomous underwater vehicle
Robust control of autonomous underwater vehicles and verification on a tethered flight vehicle
Low-cost high-precision motion control for ROVs
Autonomous manipulation for an intervention AUV
AUV ‘r2D4’, its operation, and road map forAUV development
Guidance and control of a biomimetic-autonomous underwater vehicle
Seabed-relative navigation by hybrid structured lighting
Advances in real-time spatio-temporal 3D data visualisation for underwater robotic exploration
Unmanned surface vehicles – game changing technology for naval operations
Modeling, simulation and control of an autonomous surface marine vehicle for surveying applications Measuring Dolphin MESSIN
Vehicle and mission control of single and multiple autonomous marine robots
Wave-piercing autonomous vehicles
Dynamics, control and coordination of underwater gliders