Overview

The recent development of advanced processing capabilities and higher yield power supplies means that Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUVs) are finding novel and increasingly advanced applications in research, military and commercial settings. This timely book provides a state-of-the-art overview of AUV design and practice. Focusing on the interplay between design and practice, it comprehensively covers control and navigation, communication and cooperation, and methodologies and applications where AUVs are used for education, research, biological and oceanographic studies, surveillance purposes, and military, security, and industrial tasks. The book covers key concepts for maritime engineers and navigation researchers and professionals, and is a useful reference for control and robotics researchers working on AUVs.

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Author:   Frank Ehlers (Principal Scientist, Bundeswehr Technical Center for Ships and Naval Weapons, Maritime Technology and Research (WTD 71), Germany)
Publisher:   Institution of Engineering and Technology
Imprint:   Institution of Engineering and Technology
ISBN:  

9781785617034

ISBN 10:   1785617036
Pages:   592
Publication Date:   07 September 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction Part I: Control Chapter 2: Sensor-based motion control of autonomous underwater vehicles, part I: modeling and low-complexity state estimation Chapter 3: Sensor-based motion control of autonomous underwater vehicles, part II: robust motion control strategies Chapter 4: Adaptive-robust control of autonomous underwater vehicle with unknown system dynamics Part II: Navigation Chapter 5: AUV navigation: challenges and solutions Chapter 6: Ultra-endurance AUVs: energy requirements and terrain-aided navigation Chapter 7: A simplified version of SLAM: data compression and data association for common UUV missions Part III: Toolset Chapter 8: Toolchain for autonomous systems and its use in real-life scenarios: from science to defence Chapter 9: Telemetry for AUVs Chapter 10: Pressure-tolerant and pressure-neutral systems for AUV Part IV: Cooperation Chapter 11: Optimization of waterspace management and scheduling for multiple unmanned vehicles Chapter 12: MONSUN: a swarm AUV for environmental monitoring and inspection Chapter 13: Reconfigurable, adaptable, multi-modality, mobile, wireless, energy-efficient, underwater sensor network of hover-capable AUVs Part V: Methodology Chapter 14: Task specification and behavior verification for UUV behavior design Chapter 15: Advanced AUV fault management Chapter 16: Designing, building and testing a fleet of novel AUV under the elevated requirements of an XPRIZE competition Part VI: Application Chapter 17: AUV navigation, guidance, and control for geoseismic data acquisition Chapter 18: Adaptive sampling and energy-efficient navigation in time-varying flows Chapter 19: Summary, conclusions, and future work

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Frank Ehlers (PhD) has been working as a scientist, project manager, program manager and principal scientist in German and international research institutes dealing with maritime technology for more than 20 years. Currently he is working as Principal Scientist at the Bundeswehr Technical Center for Ships and Naval Weapons, Maritime Technology and Research (WTD 71) in Germany. His recent activities focus on the topic of Autonomy and Mobile Sensors, as associate editor for journals and as chair, member-at-large, and external evaluator in international research groups, panels, and organisations.

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