Further Advances in Unmanned Marine Vehicles [Hardcover]

Unmanned marine vehicles (UMVs) is a collective term which can be used to describe autonomous underwater vehicles, remotely operated vehicles, semisubmersibles, and unmanned surface craft. These days there is considerable interest being shown in UMVs by the military, civilian and scientific communities for undertaking designated missions whilst either operating autonomously and/or in cooperation with other types of vehicle. More and more worldwide importance is also being placed on the design and development of such vehicles as they are capable of providing cost effective solutions to a number of littoral, coastal and offshore problems. This new book on the subject will cover topics including Navigation guidance and control of the following unmanned marine vehicles: remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), ncluding gliders, autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs).
Contents
1 Editorial: further advances in unmanned marine vehicles
2 ROV LATIS: next generation smart underwater vehicle
3 HyBIS: a new concept in versatile, 6000-m rated robotic underwater vehicles
4 An AUV project applied to studies on manoeuvrability of underwater vehicles
5 Neural networkbased switching adaptive control for a remotely operated vehicle
6 Development of dynamic positioning and tracking system for the ROV Minerva
7 Port-Hamiltonian control of fully actuated underwater vehicles
8 Sonar-based simultaneous localization and mapping for autonomous underwater vehicles
9 T-REX: partitioned inference for AUV mission control
10 Vehicle-following for unmanned surface vehicles
11 An automatic control and fault-tolerant multi-sensor navigation system design for an unmanned maritime vehicle
12 Cooperative control of multiple autonomous marine vehicles: theoretical foundations and practical issues
13 Hybrid glider: motivation, design and evaluation