A Survey on Unmanned Underwater Vehicles: Challenges, Enabling Technologies, and Future Research Directions [PDF]
Sensors, 2023 Unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) are becoming increasingly important for a variety of applications, including ocean exploration, mine detection, and military surveillance. This paper aims to provide a comprehensive examination of the technologies that
Arif Wibisono +3 more
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Study on Dynamic Behavior of Unmanned Surface Vehicle-Linked Unmanned Underwater Vehicle System for Underwater Exploration [PDF]
Sensors, 2020 This paper focuses on motion analysis of a coupled unmanned surface vehicle (USV)–umbilical cable (UC)–unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) system to investigate the interaction behavior between the vehicles and the UC in the ocean environment. For this, a new dynamic modeling method for investigating a multi-body dynamics system of this coupling system ...
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Threats from and Countermeasures for Unmanned Aerial and Underwater Vehicles
Sensors, 2022 The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for different applications has increased tremendously during the past decade. The small size, high maneuverability, ability to fly at predetermined coordinates, simple construction, and affordable price have ...
Wahab Khawaja +5 more
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Scheme Design and Key Technology Application of Multi-joint Unmanned Underwater Vehicle
Kongzhi Yu Xinxi Jishu, 2023 Concerning the challenges of limited operational capabilities of autonomous underwater vehicles and the impaired passability caused by the externally mounted propellers on the existing chained multi-body underwater vehicles, this paper presents an ...
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Analysis on the Development Trend and Key Technologies of Unmanned Underwater Equipment
水下无人系统学报, 2023 Unmanned underwater equipment is a new commanding heights in maritime military because it would guarantee victory in underwater battles in the future.
Zhi-ming QIU +4 more
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Editorial of Special Issue “Unconventional Drone-Based Surveying”
Drones, 2023 Nowadays, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), as well as Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs) or also Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs), later on simply called drones, have reached a sufficient degree of maturity to allow their use for various purposes [...]
Arianna Pesci +2 more
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Experimental Investigation of High Speed Cross-Domain Vehicles with Hydrofoil
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2023 Unmanned equipment, such as unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) and unmanned surface vehicles (USVs), are widely used in marine science for underwater observation, rescue, military purposes, etc.
Zeqi Shi +9 more
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Transmission of images by unmanned underwater vehicles [PDF]
Autonomous Robots, 2019 As an acoustic communications medium, water is characterized by frequency dependent attenuation, short range, very low bandwidth, scattering, and multi-path. It is generally difficult to acoustically communicate even terse messages underwater much less images.
Alice Danckaers, Mae L. Seto
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Performances of Some Autonomous Assets in Maritime Missions [PDF]
TransNav, 2020 The paper deals with key features of some autonomous assets, i.e., unmanned aerial and underwater vehicles used for marine surveillance and reconnaissance missions.
Sanja Bauk
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Study on Unmanned Hybrid Unmanned Surface Vehicle and Unmanned Underwater Vehicle System [PDF]
Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology, 2020 Underwater operating platforms face difficulties regarding power supply and communications. To overcome these difficulties, this study proposes a hybrid surface and underwater vehicle (HSUV) and presents the development of the platform, control algorithms, and results of field tests.
Han-Sol Jin +6 more
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