July 1990 VOLUME 15 NUMBER 3 IJOEDY(ISSN 0364-9059)


 SPECIAL ISSUE ON Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Technology

NONTECHNICAL CONTENT
Front cover and table of contents
Back cover

GUEST EDITORIAL
D. Richard Blidberg and Dana R. Yoerger Guest editorial 141

SPECIAL ISSUE PAPERS
Kevin R. Goheen and E. Richard Jefferys Multivariable self-tuning autopilots for autonomous and remotely operated underwater vehicles 144
Roberto Cristi, Fotis A. Papoulias, and Anthony J. Healey Adaptive sliding mode control of autonomous underwater vehicles in the dive plane 152
Junku Yuh A neural net controller for underwater robotic vehicles 161
Dana R. Yoerger, John G. Cooke, and Jean-Jacques E. Slotine The influence of thruster dynamics on underwater vehicle behavior and their incorporation into control system design 167
Attilio Brighenti Parametric analysis of the configuration of autonomous underwater vehicles 179
Shahriar Negahdaripour, Chih Ho Yu, and Amir H. Shokrollahi Recovering shape and motion from undersea images 189
Charles W. Warren A technique for autonomous underwater vehicle route planning 199
Josko A. Catipovic Performance limitations in underwater acoustic telemetry 205

SPECIAL ISSUE COMMUNICATIONS
Michael J. Zyda, Robert B. McGhee, Sehung Kwak, Douglas B. Nordman, Ray C. Rogers, and David Marco Three-dimensional visualization of mission planning and control for the NPS autonomous underwater vehicle 217
Paul S. Bowen, Steven G. Chappell, and Roger Gonzalez Using Common LISP in the EAVE autonomous underwater vehicle 221

REGULAR ISSUE PAPERS
James R. Orlando, Richard Mann, and Simon Haykin Classification of sea-ice images using a dual-polarized radar 228
Masayoshi Yamaguchi Application of fiber optics for deep-sea exploration systems 238
Jae Chul Chung, Zeungnam Bien, and Young Seog Kim A note on ship-motion prediction based on wave-excitation input estimation 244
Yiu-Tong Chan and Frederick L. Jardine Target localization and tracking from Doppler-shift measurements 251