Intelligent Autonomy for Unmanned Marine Vehicles - Robotic Control Architecture Based on Service-Oriented Agents

This book presents an Intelligent Control Architecture (ICA) to enable multiple collaborating marine vehicles to autonomously carry out underwater intervention missions. The presented ICA is generic in nature but aimed at a case study where a marine surface craft and an underwater vehicle are required to work cooperatively. It is shown that they are capable of cooperating autonomously towards the execution of complex activities since they have different but complementary capabilities. The ICA implementation is verified in simulation, and validated in trials by means of a team of autonomous marine robots. This book also presents architectural details and evaluation scenarios of the ICA, results of simulations and trials from different maritime operations, and future research directions.

List of contents

Introduction.- Existing Robotic Control Architectures.- Intelligent Control Architecture.- Architecture Design.- Architecture Realization.- Architecture Evaluation.- Conclusions and Future Work.

Summary

This book presents an Intelligent Control Architecture (ICA) to enable multiple collaborating marine vehicles to autonomously carry out underwater intervention missions. The presented ICA is generic in nature but aimed at a case study where a marine surface craft and an underwater vehicle are required to work cooperatively. It is shown that they are capable of cooperating autonomously towards the execution of complex activities since they have different but complementary capabilities. The ICA implementation is verified in simulation, and validated in trials by means of a team of autonomous marine robots. This book also presents architectural details and evaluation scenarios of the ICA, results of simulations and trials from different maritime operations, and future research directions.

Product details

• Authors: Carlos C Insaurralde, Carlos C. Insaurralde
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9783319369242
• ISBN: 978-3-31-936924-2
• No. of pages: 231
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 14 mm x 235 mm
• Weight: 400 g
• Illustrations: XXVI, 231 p. 101 illus., 18 illus. in color.
• Series: Studies in Systems, Decision and Control; Studies in Systems, Decision and Control
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries; B, Robotics, Automation, engineering, Control and Systems Theory, Computational Intelligence, Control, Robotics, Automation, Control engineering, Robotics and Automation, Automatic control engineering