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Autonomous Boats and Planes

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In this chapter, we will talk about autonomous boats, autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV), and also briefly about unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), i.e., autonomous planes and drones.

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    P.-L. Constant, Autonomous Surface Vehicles, Honours Thesis, UWA Electrical and Computer Eng., supervised by T. Bräunl, 2020.

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    MAVLink, MAVLink Developer Guide, online: https://mavlink.io/en/.

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    L. Gonzalez, Design, Modelling and Control of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle, B.E. Honours Thesis, The University of Western Australia, Electrical and Computer Eng., supervised by T. Bräunl, 2004.

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    T. Bräunl, A. Boeing, L. Gonzales, A. Koestler, M. Nguyen, J. Petitt, The Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Initiative—Project Mako, 2004 IEEE Conference on Robotics, Automation, and Mechatronics (IEEE-RAM), Dec. 2004, Singapore, pp. 446–451 (6).

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    E. Alfirevich, Depth and Position Sensing for an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle, B.E. Honours Thesis, The University of Western Australia, Electrical and Computer Eng., supervised by T. Bräunl, 2005.

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    B. Gerl, Development of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle in an Interdisciplinary Context, Diploma Thesis, The University of Western Australia and Technical Univ. München, Electrical and Computer Eng., supervised by T. Bräunl, 2006.

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    M. Drtil, Electronics and Sensor Design of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle, Diploma Thesis, The University of Western Australia and FH Koblenz, Electrical and Computer Eng., supervised by T. Bräunl, 2006.

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    F. Hidalgo, Simultaneous Localization and Mapping in Underwater Robots, Ph.D. thesis, supervised by T. Bräunl and A. Boeing, UWA 2019.

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    T. Bräunl, EyeSim VR—EyeBot Mobile Robot Simulator, online: https://robotics.ee.uwa.edu.au/eyesim/.

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    T. Bräunl, Robot Adventures in Python and C, Springer Verlag 2020.

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    M. Mohanty, Environmental Mapping in 2D/3D with the use of a Multirotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, Bachelor of Engineering Thesis, supervised by T. Bräunl and C. Croft, UWA, Oct. 2015.

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Bräunl, T. (2022). Autonomous Boats and Planes. In: Embedded Robotics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0804-9_12

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