published_or_final_version / Mechanical Engineering / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

Any effort to provide precision control for an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle requires an accurate estimation of both the vehicles physical and hydrodynamic parameters. Here a vehicle model for controlled steering behaviors was developed and the hydrodynamic parameters were calculated from actual data obtained from operation. The steering equation parameters are based on a least squares fit to sideslip and turn rate data using maximum likelihood of batch processing. In this way, a more accurate simulation has been found for the development of a track controller that stably drives the vehicle between mission waypoints. Prediction accuracy of the model was better than ninety-five percent over the data set used. / US Navy (USN) author

A project report submitted to the Faculty of University of the Wltwatersrand, Johannesburg, fulfilment of the requirements for the degree master of Science in Engineering Johannesburg, 1986

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Oregon State University, 1973. / Typescript (photocopy). Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the World Wide Web.

Thesis (doctoral)--Faculté des sciences de Paris, 1874. / Caption title. At head of title: Première thèse.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Catholic University of America, 1938. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Bibliography: p. 15.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, 1911. / "From the Philosophical magazine for November 1911."

Inaug.-diss.--Rostock. / "Litteraturangabe": p. [60].

Inaug.-diss.--Marburg.

Inaug.-diss.--Göttingen. / Lebenslauf. Plates printed on both sides.