Imaging sonar-aided navigation for autonomous underwater harbor surveillance

In this paper we address the problem of drift-free navigation for underwater vehicles performing harbor surveillance and ship hull inspection. Maintaining accurate localization for the duration of a mission is important for a variety of tasks, such as planning the vehicle trajectory and ensuring cov...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Johannsson, Hordur, Kaess, Michael, Englot, Brendan J., Hover, Franz S., Johnson, Leonard M.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/78636
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2621-7633