Steven G. Chappell

Steven G. Chappell, Rick J. Komerska, Liang Peng, Yingchun Lu; Cooperative AUV development concept (CADCON)--An environment for high-level multiple AUV simulation, Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Unmanned Untethered Submersible Technology, vol. 11, pp. 112 - 120, August 1999.

Liang Peng, D. Richard Blidberg, Steven G. Chappell, Rick J. Komerska; A new artificial neural network model of potential application in unmanned underwater technology, Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Unmanned Untethered Submersible Technology, vol. 11, pp. 330 - 334, August 1999.

Rick J. Komerska, D. Richard Blidberg, Steven G. Chappell, Liang Peng; Progress in the development and evaluation of a standard AUV command and monitoring language, Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Unmanned Untethered Submersible Technology, vol. 11, pp. 554 - 560, August 1999.

Steven G. Chappell, Roy M. Turner, Elise H. Turner, Charles Grunden; Cooperative behavior in an autonomous oceanographic sampling network: MAUV project update, Proceedings of the Tenth International Symposium on Unmanned Untethered Submersible Technology, vol. 10, pp. 375 - 384, September 1997.

Silvia M. Zanoli, Steven G. Chappell; A dual abstraction level obstacle avoidance module for an autonomous underwater vehicle, Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium on Unmanned Untethered Submersible Technology, vol. 9, pp. 317 - 326, September 1995.

Steven G. Chappell, Joseph Ayers; Innate and modulated autonomous underwater vehicle behavior, Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium on Unmanned Untethered Submersible Technology, vol. 9, pp. 376 - 385, September 1995.

Elise H. Turner, Steven G. Chappell, Scott A. Valcourt, Martin J. Dempsey; COLA: A language to support communication between multiple cooperating vehicles, Proceedings of 1994 Symposium on Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Technology, pp. 309 - 316, July 1994.

Steven G. Chappell, James C. Jalbert, Paul Pietryka, John Duchesney; Acoustic communication between two autonomous underwater vehicles, Proceedings of 1994 Symposium on Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Technology, pp. 462 - 469, July 1994.

Roy M. Turner, D. Richard Blidberg, Steven G. Chappell, James C. Jalbert; Generic behaviors: An approach to modularity in intelligent systems control, Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Unmanned Untethered Submersible Technology, vol. 8, pp. 106 - 117, September 1993.

Steven G. Chappell; Taking An Algorithm For A Ride, Proceedings of IEEE OCEANS'92 Conference, pp. 560 - 565, October 1992.

Paul S. Bowen, Steven G. Chappell, Roger Gonzalez; Using Common LISP in the EAVE autonomous underwater vehicle, IEEE J. Oceanic Eng., vol. 15, pp. 221 - 227, July 1990.

Steven G. Chappell; A simple world model for an autonomous vehicle, Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Unmanned Untethered Submersible Technology, vol. 6, pp. 512 - 524, June 1989.

Asa B. Simmons, Steven G. Chappell; Artificial intelligence--Definition and practice, IEEE J. Oceanic Eng., vol. 13, pp. 14 - 42, April 1988.

Steven G. Chappell; A blackboard based system for context sensitive mission planning in an autonomous vehicle, Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Unmanned Untethered Submersible Technology, vol. 5, pp. 467 - 476, June 1987.

D. Richard Blidberg, Steven G. Chappell; Guidance and control architecture for the EAVE vehicle, IEEE J. Oceanic Eng., vol. 11, pp. 449 - 461, October 1986.

Steven G. Chappell; A supervisor module for an autonomous vehicle, Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Unmanned Untethered Submersible Technology, vol. 4, pp. 309 - 323, June 1985.

Steven G. Chappell; Monitoring Vehicle Performance Over Time with a Knowledge-Based System, Proceedings of MTS/IEEE OCEANS'84 Conference, pp. 598 - 603, September 1984.

James C. Jalbert, Steven G. Chappell; Bubble Memory Recorder For EAVE-East Vehicle, Proceedings of MTS/IEEE OCEANS'83 Conference, pp. 160 - 162, August 1983.

Steven Chappell; Software organization in an autonomous vehicle, Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Unmanned Untethered Submersible Technology, vol. 3, pp. 162 - 169, June 1983.


Steven G. Chappell received the B.S. degree in botany from the University of New Hampshire, Durham, in 1978. He received the M.S. degree in computer science from UNH in 1987. His thesis was a prototype mission planner for an autonomous vehicle based on a dual blackboard architecture.

He is currently a Software Systems Engineer at the Marine Systems Engineering Laboratory (MSEL) at the UNH, which he joined in 1981. Since then, he has been designing, implementing, and maintaining software for MSEL's experimental autonomous vehicle (EAVE). His interests include autonomous systems, artificial intelligence programming techniques applied to real-world problems, real-time operating systems, parallel processing, and neural networks. He is currently working on a world model for the prototype mission planner and systems software for the third-generation EAVE vehicle.