Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) share common control problems with other air, land, and water unmanned vehicles. In addition to requiring high-dimensional and computationally intensive sensory data for real-time mission execution, power and communication limitations in an underwater environment make it more difficult to develop a control architecture for an AUV. In this article, the four types of control architectures being used for AUVs (hierarchical, heterarchical, subsumption, and hybrid architecture) are reviewed. A summary of 25 existing AUVs and a review of 11 AUV control architecture systems present a flavor of the state of the art in AUV technology. A new sensor-based embedded AUV control system architecture is also described and its implementation is discussed.
Control architectures for autonomous underwater vehicles
Control Systems Magazine (IEEE) ; 17 , 6 ; 48-64
1997
17 Seiten, 21 Quellen
Article (Journal)
English
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