Side scan sonar grid map for Unmanned Underwater Vehicle navigation

• Published in: OCEANS'11 MTS/IEEE KONA pp. 1 - 8
• Main Authors: Chen, E., Sheng-Wei Huang, Wei-Han Wang, Jen-Hwa Guo
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.09.2011
• Subjects: Feature extraction; occupancy grid; Real time systems; Side Scan Sonar; Sonar; Sonar navigation; target detection; uncertainties; Uncertainty; underwater navigation; UUV; Vehicles

Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs) are popular tools nowadays in marine exploration and oceanographic research. How to navigate an UUV in unknown or unstructured environments without long baseline or short baseline information are always a challenging problem. Side Scan Sonar (SSS) are common paylo...