Title :
Using a fleet of autonomous bottom crawling vehicles for surf zone operations
Author :
Duarte, Christiane N. ; Carlino, Dominick J.
Author_Institution :
US Navy Lab., Naval Undersea Warfare Center, USA
Abstract :
Multiple autonomous vehicles at low cost, small size, and expendable can be effective force multipliers for missions involving large and/or cluttered environments such as surf zone operations. The application of multiple, low-cost vehicles can provide pay-offs in increased mission effectiveness and reliability. The overall objective is to investigate the multiple vehicles group dynamics and control for a neutralization mission for bottom or buried targets using “bottom crawling vehicles”. Issues are: control of spacing and integrated dynamics of the group; group configuration (e.g. size, Homogeneous vs. Specialized units); and individual crawler´s minimum performance requirements
Keywords :
Markov processes; digital simulation; marine systems; mobile robots; sensitivity analysis; autonomous bottom crawling vehicles; buried targets; group configuration; group dynamics; minimum performance requirements; mission effectiveness; multiple autonomous vehicles; multiple low-cost vehicles; neutralization mission; reliability; surf zone operations; Analytical models; Command and control systems; Costs; Crawlers; Intelligent vehicles; Marine vehicles; Mobile robots; Remotely operated vehicles; Sensitivity analysis; Vehicle dynamics;
Conference_Titel :
Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Technology, 1994. AUV '94., Proceedings of the 1994 Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Cambridge, MA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1808-0
DOI :
10.1109/AUV.1994.518642
