Mechanical Design of a Self-Mooring Autonomous Underwater Vehicle

The Virginia Tech self-mooring autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) is capable of mooring itself on the seafloor for extended periods of time. The AUV is intended to travel to a desired mooring location, moor itself on the seafloor, and then release the mooring and return to a desired egress location...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Briggs, Robert Clayton
Other Authors: Aerospace and Ocean Engineering
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
Subjects:
AUV
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/36344
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-12202010-105838/