Design of and Decentralized Path Planning for Platoons of Miniature Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

Many successful control schemes for land-based or air-based groups, or platoons, of autonomous vehicles cannot be implemented in underwater applications because of their dependence upon high-bandwidth communication. In current strategies for controlling groups of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sylvester, Caleb Allen
Other Authors: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/10175
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10282004-094325