Proceedings of 1998 Symposium on Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Technology

Cambridge, Massachusetts, USAAugust 20 and 21, 1998

Table of Contents

Nontechnical content
Front cover and table of contents
Back cover
Current practice
Session overview--Session I: Current practice,  Anthony J. Healey,  pp. 3-4
Acoustic positioning systems. A practical overview of current systems,  Keith Vickery,  pp. 5-17
An aided navigation post processing filter for detailed seabed mapping UUVs,  Kenneth Gade and Bjørn Jalving,  pp. 19-25
The Doppler inertial acoustic system for littoral navigation (DIAS),  G. M. Trimble,  pp. 27-33
On line compensation of heading sensor bias for low cost AUVs,  A. J. Healey, E. P. An, and D. B. Marco,  pp. 35-42
An integrated GPS/INS navigation system for small AUVs using an asynchronous Kalman filter,  X. Yun, G. C. Hernandez, E. R. Bachmann, R. B. McGhee, and A. J. Healey,  pp. 43-49
Hardware trends
Session overview--Session II: Hardware trends,  William W. McFarland,  pp. 53-54
Inertial sensor technology trends,  Neil Barbour and George Schmidt,  pp. 55-62
Trends in inertial systems technology for high accuracy AUV navigation,  J. R. Huddle,  pp. 63-73
Characteristics of a small low cost inertial measurement unit,  Daniel J. Murphy,  pp. 75-87
Trends in acoustic velocity log technology at RD Instruments,  Joel Young, Fran Rowe, Blair Brumley, and Steve Bradley,  pp. 89-101
Acoustic positioning systems new concepts--The future,  Keith Vickery,  pp. 103-110
Non-traditional approaches: Exploitation of natural phenomena
Session overview--Session III: Non-traditional approaches--Exploitation of natural phenomena,  Seamus T. Tuohy,  pp. 113-114
Incorporating environmental measurements in navigation,  Hans Jacob S. Feder, John J. Leonard, and Christopher M. Smith,  pp. 115-122
Making difficult decisions autonomously: The impact of integrated mapping and navigation,  Christopher M. Smith, John J. Leonard, and Hans Jacob S. Feder,  pp. 123-132
Concurrent mapping and localization with FLS,  Robert N. Carpenter,  pp. 133-148
Using the ST725 sonar for AUV feature based navigation and correction,  W. J. Marr and A. J. Healey,  pp. 149-166
Precision gravity gradiometer/AUV system,  Murray S. Goldstein and John J. Brett,  pp. 167-174
Non-traditional approaches: Underwater GPS and vision-based approaches
Session overview--Session IV: Non-traditional approaches--Underwater GPS and vision-based approaches,  James W. Youngberg,  pp. 177-179
GIB buoys: An interface between space and depths of the oceans,  Hubert G. Thomas,  pp. 181-184
Demonstration of a vision-based dead-reckoning system for navigation of an underwater vehicle,  Andreas Huster, Stephen D. Fleischer, and Stephen M. Rock,  pp. 185-189
3-D motion and depth estimation from sea-floor images for mosaic-based station-keeping and navigation of ROVs/AUVs and high-resolution sea-floor mapping,  S. Negahdaripour, X. Xu, A. Khamene, and Z. Awan,  pp. 191-200