Advances in Unmanned Marine Vehicles

Geoff Roberts is Professor of Mechatronic Systems in the Control Theory and Applications Centre, Coventry University. He has been involved in research into marine control applications for over twenty-five years and has made significant contributions in the areas of intelligence autopilots, ship motion stabilization and guidance and control of UUVs. Geoff is chairman of the Mechatronics Forum, immediate past chairman of the IFAC Technical Committee on Marine Systems, a member of the IFAC Technical Committee on Mechatronics and an Associate Editor of Control Engineering Practice.Professor Sutton is currently Head of the Marine and Industrial Dynamic Analysis Group in the School of Engineering at the University of Plymouth. He is Chair of the IFAC Technical Committee on Marine Systems, Vice Chair of the United Kingdom Automatic Control Council, Vice Chair of the ImechE Mechatronics, Informatics and Control Committee and a Member of the SUT Underwater Robotics Committee. He has authored over 160 journal and conference papers on various aspects of marine control.

• Chapter 1: Editorial: navigation, guidance and control of unmanned marine vehiclesChapter 2: Nonlinear modelling, identification and control of UUVsChapter 3: Guidance laws, obstacle avoidance and artificial potential functionsChapter 4: Behaviour control of UUVsChapter 5: Thruster control allocation for over-actuated, open-frame underwater vehiclesChapter 6: Switching-based supervisory control of underwater vehiclesChapter 7: Navigation, guidance and control of the Hammerhead autonomous underwater vehicleChapter 8: Robust control of autonomous underwater vehicles and verification on a tethered flight vehicleChapter 9: Low-cost high-precision motion control for ROVsChapter 10: Autonomous manipulation for an intervention AUV 217Chapter 11: AUV 'r2D4', its operation, and road map for AUV developmentChapter 12: Guidance and control of a biomimetic-autonomous underwater vehicleChapter 13: Seabed-relative navigation by hybrid structured lightingChapter 14: Advances in real-time spatio-temporal 3D data visualisation for underwater robotic explorationChapter 15: Unmanned surface vehicles - game changing technology for naval operationsChapter 16: Modelling, simulation and control of an autonomous surface marine vehicle for surveying applications Measuring Dolphin MESSINChapter 17: Vehicle and mission control of single and multiple autonomous marine robotsChapter 18: Wave-piercing autonomous vehiclesChapter 19: Dynamics, control and coordination of underwater gliders