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Underwater Robots

  • Up-to-date and top class research in underwater robotics by a leading expert in the field, now in its 4th substantially improved edition
  • Represents the state of the art in dynamic robotic dynamic control of underwater vehicles, offering a mathematical model with significant impact on the control strategy
  • Includes expanded theory and improved simulations and a completely new chapter on the simulation package for underwater vehicles Simurv 4.1

Part of the book series: Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics (STAR, volume 123)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxx
  2. Introduction

    • Gianluca Antonelli
    Pages 1-32
  3. Modelling of Underwater Robots

    • Gianluca Antonelli
    Pages 33-110
  4. Control of UVMSs

    • Gianluca Antonelli
    Pages 175-329
  5. Simurv 4.1

    • Gianluca Antonelli
    Pages 331-346
  6. Concluding Remarks

    • Gianluca Antonelli
    Pages 347-348
  7. Back Matter

    Pages 349-350

About this book

A classic in underwater robotics. One of the first volumes in the “Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics” series, it has been a bestseller through the previous three editions. Fifteen years after the publication of the first edition, the fourth edition comes to print. The book addresses the main control aspects in underwater manipulation tasks. With respect to the third edition, it has been revised, extended and some concepts better clustered. The mathematical model with significant impact on the control strategy is discussed. The problem of controlling a 6-degrees-of-freedoms autonomous underwater vehicle is investigated and a survey of fault detection/tolerant strategies for unmanned underwater vehicles is provided. Inverse kinematics, dynamic and interaction control for underwater vehicle-manipulator systems are then discussed. The code used to generate most of the numerical simulations is made available and briefly discussed.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e dell’Informazione, Università di Cassino e Lazio Meridionale, Cassino, Italy

    Gianluca Antonelli

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Underwater Robots

  • Authors: Gianluca Antonelli

  • Series Title: Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77899-0

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-77898-3Published: 13 April 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08568-1Published: 14 December 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-77899-0Published: 05 April 2018

  • Series ISSN: 1610-7438

  • Series E-ISSN: 1610-742X

  • Edition Number: 4

  • Number of Pages: XXX, 350

  • Number of Illustrations: 88 b/w illustrations, 129 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Robotics and Automation, Artificial Intelligence

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eBook USD 149.00
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Softcover Book USD 199.99
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Hardcover Book USD 199.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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