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Autonomous Marine Vehicle Operations

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
The world has witnessed the rapid development of autonomous marine vehicles,such as surface vehicles and underwater vehicles, which have created fruitful innovative approaches to previously unsolvable problems in marine and ocean engineering [...]
Xiao Liang, Rubo Zhang, Xingru Qu
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Review of biomimetic flexible flapping foil propulsion systems on different planetary bodies

Results in Engineering, 2020
Locomotion techniques employed by different biological animals are extremely diverse and fascinating from an engineering point of view. The explorations of planets such as Mars, Titan, Europa, Enceladus with the use of aerial, terrestrial, and underwater
Naga Praveen Babu Mannam, Md. Mahbub Alam, P. Krishnankutty   +2 more
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Range-only benthic Rover localization off the central California coast [PDF]

, 2016
Nowadays, the use of autonomous vehicles for ocean research has increased, since these vehicles have a better cost/performance ratio than crewed vessels or oceanographic ships.
Gomáriz Castro, Spartacus, Kieft, B, Masmitjà Rusiñol, Ivan, O’Reilly, T, Río Fernandez, Joaquín del   +4 more
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Meander-Based River Coverage by an Autonomous Surface Vehicle [PDF]

, 2021
12th Conference on Field and Service Robotics (FSR 2019), Accepted July ...
Karapetyan, Nare, Moulton, Jason, Rekleitis, Ioannis   +2 more
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Evaluation of laser range-finder mapping for agricultural spraying vehicles [PDF]

, 2013
In this paper, we present a new application of laser range-finder sensing to agricultural spraying vehicles. The current generation of spraying vehicles use automatic controllers to maintain the height of the sprayer booms above the crop. However, these
A Nüchter, AM Endalew, F Rovira-Más, F-A Moreno, H Jeon, J Anthonis, J Wei, M Magnusson, P Walklate, S Pedersen, S Thrun   +10 more
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Autonomous 3D Exploration of Large Structures Using an UAV Equipped with a 2D LIDAR [PDF]

, 2019
This paper addressed the challenge of exploring large, unknown, and unstructured industrial environments with an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The resulting system combined well-known components and techniques with a new manoeuvre to use a low-cost 2D
Faria, Margarida, Ferreira, António Sérgio, Maza Alcañiz, Iván, Pérez-León, Héctor, Viguria, Antidio   +4 more
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Dynamic Control of Mobile Multirobot Systems: The Cluster Space Formulation [PDF]

, 2014
The formation control technique called cluster space control promotes simplified specification and monitoring of the motion of mobile multirobot systems of limited size.
Kitts, Christopher, Mas, Ignacio Agustin
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A-Star (A*) with Map Processing for the Global Path Planning of Autonomous Underwater and Surface Vehicles Operating in Large Areas

Applied Sciences
The global path planning system is one of the basic systems ensuring the autonomous operation of unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) and unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) in a complex aquatic environment.
Rafał Kot, Piotr Szymak, Paweł Piskur, Krzysztof Naus   +3 more
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Autonomous Surface and Underwater Vehicles as Effective Ecosystem Monitoring and Research Platforms in the Arctic—The Glider Project

Sensors, 2021
Effective ocean management requires integrated and sustainable ocean observing systems enabling us to map and understand ecosystem properties and the effects of human activities.
Lionel Camus, Hector Andrade, Ana Sofia Aniceto, Magnus Aune, Kanchana Bandara, Sünnje Linnéa Basedow, Kai Håkon Christensen, Jeremy Cook, Malin Daase, Katherine Dunlop, Stig Falk-Petersen, Peer Fietzek, Gro Fonnes, Peygham Ghaffari, Geir Gramvik, Inger Graves, Daniel Hayes, Tor Langeland, Harald Lura, Trond Kristiansen, Ole Anders Nøst, David Peddie, Joel Pederick, Geir Pedersen, Ann Kristin Sperrevik, Kai Sørensen, Luca Tassara, Sigurd Tjøstheim, Vigdis Tverberg, Salve Dahle   +29 more
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A Natural Language Interface with Relayed Acoustic Communications for Improved Command and Control of AUVs

, 2018
Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are being tasked with increasingly complex missions. The acoustic communications required for AUVs are, by the nature of the medium, low bandwidth while adverse environmental conditions underwater often mean they are
Garcia, Francisco J. Chiyah, Hastie, Helen, Laskov, Atanas, Liu, Xingkun, Patron, Pedro, Petillot, Yvan R., Robb, David A., Valeyrie, Nicolas, Willners, Jonatan Scharff   +8 more
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