Title
Variable-configuration UUVs for marine science applications
Abstract
In this article, after a brief overview of trends in underwater unmanned vehicle (UUV) design and applications, results in developing an automatic guidance and control system for Romeo are presented. Attention is focused on the design, development, and testing in the operating conditions of a bottom and ice-canopy following system and on the development of methodologies for the at-field identification of the vehicle dynamics in order to guarantee high motion-control performance, even in the presence of variations in the vehicle configuration. In particular, the system performance in the proximity of the coast, where there is only a very shallow column of free water between the ice-pack and the sea-bed, is discussed.
Year
DOI
Venue
1999
10.1109/100.774925
IEEE Robot. Automat. Mag.
Keywords
Field
DocType
Remotely operated vehicles,Marine vehicles,Underwater vehicles,Oceanographic techniques,Geology,Navigation,Costs,Mobile robots,Hydrodynamics,Oceans
Automatic guidance,Remotely operated underwater vehicle,Motion control,Simulation,Control engineering,Vehicle dynamics,Engineering,Control system,Marine engineering,Mobile robot,Underwater
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
6
2
1070-9932
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.96
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Massimo Caccia113126.20
R. Bono250.96
G. Bruzzone3202.54
G. Veruggio451.29