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Autonomous underwater vehicles. --- Autonomous underwater vehicles --- Dynamics. --- AUVs (Autonomous underwater vehicles) --- Underwater robotic vehicles --- Unmanned submersibles --- Unmanned undersea vehicles --- Unmanned underwater vehicles --- Automated vehicles --- Submersibles

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For the latest twenty to thirty years, a significant number of AUVs has been created for the solving of wide spectrum of scientific and applied tasks of ocean development and research. For the short time period the AUVs have shown the efficiency at performance of complex search and inspection works and opened a number of new important applications. Initially the information about AUVs had mainly review-advertising character but now more attention is paid to practical achievements, problems and systems technologies. AUVs are losing their prototype status and have become a fully operational, reliable and effective tool and modern multi-purpose AUVs represent the new class of underwater robotic objects with inherent tasks and practical applications, particular features of technology, systems structure and functional properties.

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Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are emerging as a promising solution to help us explore and understand the ocean. The global market for AUVs is predicted to grow from 638 million dollars in 2020 to 1,638 million dollars by 2025 a compound annual growth rate of 20.8 percent. To make AUVs suitable for a wider range of application-specific missions, it is necessary to deploy multiple AUVs to cooperatively perform the localization, tracking and formation tasks. However, weak underwater acoustic communication and the model uncertainty of AUVs make achieving this challenging. This book presents cutting-edge results regarding localization, tracking and formation for AUVs, highlighting the latest research on commonly encountered AUV systems. It also showcases several joint localization and tracking solutions for AUVs. Lastly, it discusses future research directions and provides guidance on the design of future localization, tracking and formation schemes for AUVs. Representing a substantial contribution to nonlinear system theory, robotic control theory, and underwater acoustic communication system, this book will appeal to university researchers, scientists, engineers, and graduate students in control theory and control engineering who wish to learn about the core principles, methods, algorithms, and applications of AUVs. Moreover, the practical localization, tracking and formation schemes presented provide guidance on exploring the ocean. The book is intended for those with an understanding of nonlinear system theory, robotic control theory, and underwater acoustic communication systems.

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Vehicles, Remotely piloted. --- Remote control. --- Autonomous underwater vehicles. --- AUVs (Autonomous underwater vehicles) --- Underwater robotic vehicles --- Unmanned submersibles --- Unmanned undersea vehicles --- Unmanned underwater vehicles --- Autonomous vehicles --- Submersibles --- Electric control, Remote --- Electric apparatus and appliances --- Electric controllers --- Engineering instruments --- Vehicles, Remotely piloted --- Unmanned vehicles --- Vehicles --- Radio control --- Remote control --- Remote submersibles. --- Remotely controlled underwater vehicles --- Remotely operated underwater vehicles --- ROVs (Submersibles) --- URVs (Submersibles) --- UUVs (Submersibles)

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Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) are remarkable machines that revolutionized the process of gathering ocean data. Their major breakthroughs resulted from successful developments of complementary technologies to overcome the challenges associated with autonomous operation in harsh environments. Most of these advances aimed at reaching new application scenarios and decreasing the cost of ocean data collection, by reducing ship time and automating the process of data gathering with accurate geo location. With the present capabilities, some novel paradigms are already being employed to further exploit the on board intelligence, by making decisions on line based on real time interpretation of sensor data. This book collects a set of self contained chapters covering different aspects of AUV technology and applications in more detail than is commonly found in journal and conference papers. They are divided into three main sections, addressing innovative vehicle design, navigation and control techniques, and mission preparation and analysis. The progress conveyed in these chapters is inspiring, providing glimpses into what might be the future for vehicle technology and applications.

Oceanographic submersibles. --- Remote submersibles. --- Submersibles. --- Submergibles --- Undersea vehicles --- Underwater vehicles --- Vehicles --- Remotely controlled underwater vehicles --- Remotely operated underwater vehicles --- ROVs (Submersibles) --- Underwater robotic vehicles --- Unmanned submersibles --- Unmanned undersea vehicles --- Unmanned underwater vehicles --- URVs (Submersibles) --- UUVs (Submersibles) --- Submersibles --- Vehicles, Remotely piloted --- Deep diving vehicles --- Deep-sea research vessels --- Deep submergence vehicles --- Manned exploration devices --- Automotive technology & trades