Hydrodynamic Modelling for a Transportation System of Two Unmanned Underwater Vehicles: Semi-Empirical, Numerical and Experimental Analyses

Flight Dynamics Modelling and Experimental Validation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are a viable alternative to manned aircraft and satellites for a variety of applications, including environmental monitoring, agriculture, and surveying. They promise greater precision and much lower operating costs than traditional methods. Critical to the success of UAV systems is the auto-pilot system which keeps the vehicle in the air and in control in the ab...

Modelling and Experimental Study of Wax Deposition in Transportation Line Using a Flow Loop System

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 ...

A Polar Initial Alignment Algorithm for Unmanned Underwater Vehicles

Due to its highly autonomy, the strapdown inertial navigation system (SINS) is widely used in unmanned underwater vehicles (UUV) navigation. Initial alignment is crucial because the initial alignment results will be used as the initial SINS value, which might affect the subsequent SINS results. Due to the rapid convergence of Earth meridians, there is a calculation overflow in conventional init...

Towards Sonar Based Perception and Modelling for Unmanned Untethered Underwater Vehicles

The ability to automatically generate internal models from sensed data will be of critical importance in the development of flexible, adaptive and useful unmanned underwater vehicles. The subsequent recognition of objects based on these a-priori models, which may be incomplete or partial, will also be an essential component in the success of UUV missions. This paper describes and presents exper...