Internally Actuated Lateral-Directional Maneuvering for a Blended Wing-Body Underwater Glider

Abstract

The principal goals of Phases I & II (the YIP Award and Supplement) were to: (1) Enhance the performance capability of streamlined AUVs by extending their operating range to include hover. (2) Develop energy-based nonlinear control design tools and demonstrate them in practical vehicle applications. (3) Develop algorithms for simple flow-field modeling and identification using data from a platoon of small AUVs. The principal goal of Phase III was to: (4) Address the lateral/directional control challenges associated with low-speed, high angle of attack flight of underwater gliders, particularly the XRay/Liberdade blended wing-body glider developed jointly by Scripps Institute of Oceanography and the University of Washington Applied Physics Lab.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 2009
Accession Number
ADA496222

Entities

People

  • Craig A Woolsey

Organizations

  • Virginia Tech

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
  • Autonomous Vehicles
  • Boundary Layer
  • Buoyancy
  • Closed Loop Systems
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Control Systems
  • Directional
  • Engineering
  • Hulls (Marine)
  • Motion Planning
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Spacecraft
  • Underwater Gliders
  • Underwater Vehicles
  • Unmanned Vehicles
  • Vehicles

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerodynamics/Aeronautics.
  • Research Science/Academic Research
  • Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Autonomous Capabilities and Mission Reconnaissance.

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy