Technology and Applications of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

Documenting the transition of AUVs from dream to reality, this book explores their diverse usage in modern marine environments including scientific research, defence, surveying, and industry.

Autorentext
Gwyn Griffiths

Klappentext
Autonomous underwater vehicles - robot submarines - are revolutionizing the way in which researchers and industry obtain data. Advances in technology have resulted in capable vehicles that have made new discoveries on how the oceans work and have dramatically reduced the cost to industry of surveying the seabed. Technology and Applications of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles describes the technologies that have made this happen and a host of applications from fish abundance studies to finding diamonds beneath the sea. This book will help the next generation of engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and government laboratories to continue in research, defense, and industry.

Inhalt
List of contributors, Foreword, Introduction, Abbreviations and acronyms, 1. Distributed Hardware-in-the-loop Simulation for Unmanned Underwater Vehicle DevelopmentIssues and Applications, 2. Power Sources for Unmanned Underwater Vehicles, 3. Autonomous Buoyancy-driven Underwater Gliders, 4. Solar Powered Autonomous Underwater Vehicles, 5. Advanced Materials and their Influence on the Structural Design of AUVs, 6. Docking Systems, 7. Propulsion Systems for AUVs, 8. AUV Tasks in the Offshore Industry, 9. Multidisciplinary Ocean Science Applications of an AUV: The Autosub Science Missions Programme, 10. Defence Applications for Unmanned Underwater Vehicles, 11. Detailed Seabed Surveys with AUVs, 12. AUVs for Surveys in Complex Environments, 13. Cargo Carrying AUVs, 14. Semi-submersible AUVs, 15. AUV Sensors for Marine Research, 16. Logistics, Risks and Procedures Concerning Autonomous Underwater Vehicles, 17. The Legal Regime Governing the Operation of AUVs, References, Index

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