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Navigation & Control Of An Automated Swath Surface Vessel For Bathymetric Mapping, Ketan Rasal
Navigation & Control Of An Automated Swath Surface Vessel For Bathymetric Mapping, Ketan Rasal
Mechanical Engineering Master's Theses
With the abundant amount of water on the earth, the study of underwater terrain plays an important role in the use and sustainability of marine resources. A wide variety of technical systems are used to collect such bathymetric data, and autonomous vehicles are being explored as a manner in which to make this process more cost-effective. Students in Santa Clara University's Robotic Systems Laboratory are contributing to this effort through the development of an autonomous SWATH boat that can create such maps. As part of this thesis work, the navigation and control system of this SWATH boat has been significantly …