Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 8 June 2015. — 150 p. In this thesis, an online method is developed to identify and validate the dynamics of a newly configured AUV. The AUV is programmed to perform a compact set of maneuvers where the vehicle’s response is measured under known excitation. The method is composed of two stages. In the training stage, a State Variable...
Moussette D., Palooparambil A. and Raymond J., the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 2010. — 174 p. Autonomous vehicles are increasingly being investigated for use in oceanographic studies, underwater surveillance, and search operations. Research currently being done in the area of autonomous underwater craft is often hindered by expense. This project seeks to complete the...
Ho G., Pavlovic N.J., Arrabito R., Abdalla R. — Defence R&D Canada, DRDC Toronto, March 2011. — 71 p. There has been a great deal of human factors research on unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) in large part due to a high number of operator related mishaps. However, there is very little research examining the unique human factors problems...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mechanical Engineering, June 2004. — 134 p. Supervisor: Chryssostomos Chryssostomidis Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering. The utility of present Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) is limited by their on-board energy storage capability. Research indicates that rechargeable batteries will continue to be the AUV power source of...
Department of Information Engineering Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering The Australian National University (ANU), July 2007. — 150 p. Supervisors: Dr. rer. nat. Uwe Zimmer. Effective communication mechanisms are a key requirement for schools of submersible robots and their meaningful deployment. Large schools of identical submersibles require a fully...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mechanical Engineering, 2012. — 92 p. Supervisor: H. Hary Asada, ford professor of Mechanical Engineering. Autonomous mobile robots need a reliable means of navigation to reach their target while avoiding collisions. This requires continuous knowledge of the vehicle's position, orientation, and motion as well as a way to identify their...
The University of Hawai‘i, Ocean & Resources Engineering, December 2008. — 326 p. Dissertation Committee: Monique Chyba, Song K. Choi, R. Cengiz Ertekin, Geno Pawlak, George R. Wilkens. This dissertation is based on theoretical study and experiments which extend geometric control theory to practical applications within the field of ocean engineering. We present a method for path...
Diplomarbeit, Technische Universität München, Fakultät für Maschinenwesen, The University of Western Australia, School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, 2006. — 82 p. Supervisors: prof. dr. Thomas Bräunl, prof. dr. Lindemann. The development of the AUV is presented as an example of the development process for a mechatronic product. The difficulties occurring...
Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores, Faculdade de engenharia da universidade do Porto, 2017. — 123 p. Supervisor: Nuno Alexandre Cruz An underwater profiler is a vehicle that moves predominantly along the vertical axis. This type of a utonomous vehicle moves mainly in the vertical column of water and drifts along the horizontal plan subjected to...
Kluwer, 1996. — 250 p. All life came from sea but all robots were born on land. The vast majority of both industrial and mobile robots operate on land, since the technology to allow them to operate in and under the ocean has only become available in recent years. A number of complex issues due to the unstructured, hazardous undersea environment, makes it difficult to travel in...
Intech, 2011. — 270 p. Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) are remarkable machines that revolutionized the process of gathering ocean data. Their major breakthroughs resulted from successful developments of complementary technologies to overcome the challenges associated with autonomous operation in harsh environments. Most of these advances aimed at reaching new application...
Springer, 2010. — 152 p. This monograph presents different techniques developed with the objective of providing a solution to the navigation problem for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) operating in structured environments, with special attention to localization techniques but, particularly, to the application of SLAM (Simultaneous Localization And Mapping) techniques as a...
Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, AD-A286 833, December 1994. — 271 p. Dissertation Supervisor: Michael J. Zyda. A critical bottleneck exists in Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) design and development. It is tremendously difficult to observe, communicate with and test underwater robots, because they operate in a remote and hazardous environment where physical...
Mobile Robotics Laboratory, Centre for Intelligent Information Processing Systems, School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, The University of Western Australia, 2004. — 156 p. Supervisor: Associate Professor Thomas Braunl. This thesis is concerned with the design and development of an AUV specifically intended for entry into international underwater vehicle...
Submitted to the Department of Mechanical Engineering in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, 2009. — 62 p. Advisor: Professor David E. Hardt Chairman, Departmental Committee on Graduate Students Department of Mechanical Engineering. The practical usage of unmanned...
A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of a Bachelor of Engineering, Australian National University Department of Engineering, 1999. — 75 p. Supervisors: Mr. Samer Abdallah, Dr. David Wettergreen, Dr. Alex Zelinsky. The aim of this project was to develop the state estimation system for an autonomous underwater vehicle called Kambara. This project took place at the Research...
A Major Qualifying Project Submitted to the Faculty of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Science, Mirad Laboratory, 2014. — 176 p. Advisor: Professor Mustapha S. Fofana, Ph.D., Director of Mirad Laboratory, Mechanical Engineering Department. The objective of this project focuses on designing a Remotely...
Group of authors. — Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) US Navy Office of Naval Research (ONR), Version 01 - July 2007. — 95 p. The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) and the Office of Naval Research (ONR) sponsored the development of this primer document. It is intended for students who are considering participation in the...
Saab Seaeye, Fareham, United Kingdom, 2013. — 6 p. The Seaeye Cougar-XT is a compact, highly flexible and extremely powerful electric ROV with working depths of 2000 metres. Proven worldwide and recognised for its capability, operators now have the ability to undertake a range of demanding work tasks at much lower operating costs. Seaeye Cougar-XT is designed to accommodate...