A HIGH—RATE VIRTUAL INSTRUMENT OF MARINE VEHICLE MOTIONS FOR UNDERWATER NAVIGATION AND OCEAN REMOTE SENSING

The USVs, i.e. unmanned surface vehicles are self-contained vessels capable of transiting on the water surface either fully autonomously or being remotely controlled. In the contrary to the traditional manned vessels that are commonly very large and so costly to construct, the unmanned surface vehicles are smaller and cost less.

The work presented in the pages of this book forms a part of a large project. The author of the volume starts with some introduction followed by the description of the instrumentation and data acquisition system, including sensors, data acquisition and processing, data fusion, motion observation, relevant experiments, and all other information that is expected to be highly appreciated by the specialists working in this field. The most of the information contained in this book is quite hard to be found in any other publication.