January 1995 VOLUME 20 NUMBER 1 IJOEDY(ISSN 0364-9059)


 SPECIAL ISSUE ON Advanced control and signal processing for oceanic applications

NONTECHNICAL CONTENT
Front cover and table of contents
Back cover

SPECIAL ISSUE PAPERS
Ferial El-Hawary Editorial 1
Karim Djouani and Yskandar Hamam Minimum time-energy trajectory planning for automatic ship berthing 4
E. Köse, Raymond G. Gosine, A. Bruce Dunwoody, and S. M. Calisal An expert system for monitoring dynamic stability of small craft 13
Ikuo Yamamoto, Yuuzi Terada, Tetuo Nagamatu, and Yoshiteru Imaizumi Propulsion system with flexible/rigid oscillating fin 23
Ferial El-Hawary and Yuyang Jing Robust regression-based EKF for tracking underwater targets 31
José Paulo V. S. da Cunha, Ramon R. Costa, and Liu Hsu Design of a high performance variable structure position control of ROV's 42
Henry Leung Applying chaos to radar detection in an ocean environment: An experimental study 56
Roland S. Burns The use of artificial neural networks for the intelligent optimal control of surface ships 65

PAPERS
Shaolin Li and Terrence J. Sejnowski Adaptive separation of mixed broadband sound sources with delays by a beamforming Hérault-Jutten network 73
Pamela A. Delaney and David O. Walsh Performance analysis of the incoherent and skewness matched filter detectors in multipath environments 80
T. P. Le Bas, D.  C. Mason, and N. C. Millard TOBI image processing--The state of the art 85

COMMUNICATIONS
G. E. Schubak and D. S. Scott A techno-economic comparison of power systems for autonomous underwater vehicles 94