The Odyssey IV autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) is the next generation of unmanned subsurface robots from the MIT Sea Grant AUV Laboratory. The Odyssey IV AUV has a novel propulsion system, which includes a pair of azimuthing thrusters for maneuvering in surge and heave. An analytical model was developed to describe the complex nonlinear vehicle dynamics, and experiments were performed to re...

Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) have the potential to perform many of the complex and possibly dangerous missions currently flown by manned aircraft. Within visual range air combat is an extremely difficult and dynamic aerial task which presents many challenges for an autonomous UAS. An agile, unpredictable, and possibly human-piloted adversary, coupled with a complex and rapidly changing envir...

Fishes require complex coordinated motions of the jaws, body and fins during feeding in order to successfully execute the strike or bite and then move away from the predation site. In conjunction with locomotor systems, sensory modalities guide coordinated feeding behavior, with vision playing an important role in many fishes. Although often studied separately, the locomotor, feeding and visual...

Coronavirus Pandemic attracts the attention of most, if not all researchers, each from his perspective. Trump's press conferences about coronavirus are fertile land to study strategic maneuvering. This study, therefore, aims at identifying pragmatic structure maneuvering in a conference. In accordance with its aim, hypothesizes that conference is pragmatically constructed by three stages, namel...

The movement of single and group cars in traffic flows was investigated during the work. These studies are used to calculate vehicle delay time maneuvers through crossings adjacencies at same level. On basis data obtained, technical economic discussion cross-sectional or adjoining parameters under consideration can be made. In course study, examination will conducted on influence intensity, vel...

The Corpus Christi Ship Channel in Texas connects the Port of to Gulf Mexico. is seeking deepen 22.9m (75ft) nominal depth order allow fully loaded very large crude carriers (VLCC’s) access proposed terminals within port complex. As a part environmental coordination requirements National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Authority prepared number studies assess potential impacts channel deepening...

Ground maneuvering target tracking is a class of nonlinear and/or no-Gaussian filtering problem. A new interacting multiple model unscented particle filter (IMMUPF) is presented to deal with the problem. A bank of unscented particle filters is used in the interacting multiple model (IMM) framework for updating the state of moving target. To validate the algorithm, two groups of multiple model f...

This is the first part of a series of papers that provide a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the problems and techniques of tracking maneuvering targets in the absence of the so-called measurement-origin uncertainty. It surveys the various mathematical models of target dynamics proposed for maneuvering target tracking, including 2D and 3D maneuver models as well as coordinate-uncoupled ge...