OCEN 451: Robotic Marine Vehicles for Ocean Engineers

Course Description

Credits 3.
3 Lecture Hours.Theoretical and practical overview of robotic marine vehicles, including both surface and subsurface vehicles, operating in remote and coastal areas; design and deployment of seaborne robotic systems; hydrodynamic and hydrostatic properties of the vessel, the propulsion, control system and navigation strategies and path planning; underwater acoustics, focusing on the fundamentals necessary to design and predict SONAR performance for underwater communications and obstacle avoidance.Prerequisite:Grade of C or better inOCEN 311.