Hydrothermal Chimney Distribution on the Endeavour Segment, Juan de Fuca Ridge
The Endeavour Segment of the Juan de Fuca Ridge is well known for its abundance of hydrothermal vents and chimneys. One‐meter scale multibeam mapping data collected by an autonomous undersea vehicle revealed 572 chimneys along the central 14 km of the ...
David A. Clague +9 more
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Adoption of vehicular ad hoc networking protocols by networked robots [PDF]
This paper focuses on the utilization of wireless networking in the robotics domain. Many researchers have already equipped their robots with wireless communication capabilities, stimulated by the observation that multi-robot systems tend to have several
Demeester, Piet +2 more
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On-the-go machine vision sensing of cotton plant geometric parameters: first results [PDF]
Plant geometrical parameters such as internode length (i.e. the distance between successive branches on the main stem) indicate water stress in cotton.
McCarthy, Cheryl +2 more
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Modeling and Simulation of Cross-Rudder Underactuated AUV Based on Kane Dynamics
In order to obtain a more accurate dynamics model of autonomous undersea vehicles(AUVs), the kinematics and dynamics equations of the cross-rudder underactuated AUV were deduced by introducing the related knowledge of Kane dynamics.
Ke YANG
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Waypoint-tracking Control of a Benthic AUV Based on Model-free Adaptive Control Method
In this study, the model-free adaptive control(MFAC) method was applied to a waypoint-tracking control system to solve the problems of high uncertainty in the marine environment and difficulty in accurately determining the benthic autonomous undersea ...
Peng GAO +4 more
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UNDERSEA : An Exemplar for Engineering Self-Adaptive Unmanned Underwater Vehicles [PDF]
Recent advances in embedded systems and underwater communications raised the autonomy levels in unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) from human-driven and scripted to adaptive and self-managing.
Calinescu, Radu Constantin +3 more
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A Hierarchal Planning Framework for AUV Mission Management in a Spatio-Temporal Varying Ocean
The purpose of this paper is to provide a hierarchical dynamic mission planning framework for a single autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) to accomplish task-assign process in a limited time interval while operating in an uncertain undersea environment ...
Atyabi, Adham +4 more
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Pose Detection and control of multiple unmanned underwater vehicles using optical feedback [PDF]
This paper proposes pose detection and control algorithms in order to control the relative pose between two Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs) using optical feedback.
Barbaros Celikkol +5 more
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Visual Guidance Algorithm for AUV Recovery Based on CNN Object Tracking
The development of autonomous undersea vehicle recovery technology is the main approach to solve problems pertaining to energy and information transmission and to enhance the underwater detection and concealment capabilities of unmanned systems.
Ze-kai HAN +4 more
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Advanced Functional Materials for Marine Energy Utilization
Marine renewable energy is an important future clean energy supply. We construct and sort out the material system for marine energy capture and conversion, transmission, storage, and utilization for the first time. ABSTRACT Several features of marine energy, including large reserves, sustainable utilization, environmental friendliness, make it a ...
Qiang Yu +7 more
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