Collaborative Control of Unmanned Underwater Vehicles

Automated Mission Parallelization for Unmanned Underwater Vehicles

In the past Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs) have been used to perform different tasks such as mapping the ocean floor and on-site exploration. Current research reveals even more applications for UUVs in many different areas including the military, scientific research, commercial uses, and even certain aspects of law enforcement. Unless missions for these applications can be written using a ...

Supervisory Control of Unmanned Vehicles

Collaborative Sensing by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

In many military and civilian applications, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) provide an indispensable platform for gathering information about the situation on the ground. In particular, they have the potential to revolutionize the way in which information is collected, fused and disseminated. These advantages are greatly enhanced if swarms of multiple UAVs are used, since this enables the colle...

Identification of Unmanned Underwater Vehicles by Self-Oscillation Method

Control of underwater vehicles is a challenging task since these systems demonstrate highly coupled and nonlinear behavior in uncertain and often unknown environment. In order to successfully design higher levels of control hierarchy, sufficiently accurate parameters of a mathematical model describing the vessel is required. These parameters vary significantly depending on the payload; hence co...

A Review of Guidance Laws Applicable to Unmanned Underwater Vehicles

The main problem in bringing autonomy to any vehicle lies in the design of a suitable guidance law. For a truly autonomous operation, the vehicle needs to have a reliable Navigation, Guidance and Control (NGC) system of which the guidance system is the key element, which generates suitable trajectories to be followed. In this survey paper, various guidance laws found in the literature and their...