DISSERTATIONS, THESIS, PUBLICATIONS, INFORMATION ETC.

FOR AUV's, ROV's AND RELATED THEMES

FLORIDA TECH. OCEAN ENGINEERING THESIS & DISSERTATIONS

• Joey Farrell, (M.S. -2008) Ocean Engineering - Thesis:

• Maila Sepri, (M.S. -2008) Ocean Engineering - Thesis:

• Douglas Bowlus, (M.S. -2008) Ocean Engineering - Thesis:

• Adam Outlaw, (M.S. - 2007) Ocean Engineering - Thesis: Computerization of an Autonomous Mobile Buoy

• Hunter Brown, (M.S. - 2006) Ocean Engineering - Thesis: A Low-Cost Laser Positioning Apparatus and UUV for Ship Hull Analysis

• Mikhail Dembick (Misha) (M.S. 2006) Ocean Engineering - Thesis:

• Shinjo, (Ph.D. - 2005) Ocean Engineering - Dissertation: Investigations into the use of Shape Memory Alloy for Biomimetic Propulsion of Underwater Vehicles

• Jesse Davis, (M.S. - 2005) Ocean Engineering - Thesis: Numerical Analysis of Bioluminescent Excitation Responses

• Aubrey Kozak, (M.S. - 2005) Ocean Engineering - Thesis: Underwater Metal Detection Using Video Image Processing Techniques to Determine Location

• Eduardo Gonzalez, (M.S. 2005) Ocean Engineering - Thesis: Development of Experimental Techniques and Sea-Keeping Tests of Catamaran Model in Open Water

• Douglas Guardino, (M.S. - 2004) Ocean Engineering - Thesis: Design of Sensor and Wireless Data Acquisition System For Field Testing of Hull Models

• Brian Howell, (Ph.D. - 2004) Ocean Engineering - Dissertation: Evaluation of Neural Networks for Data Classification, Recognition, and Navigation in the Marine Environment

• Adam Kay, (M.S. - 2004) Ocean Engineering - Project: Use of Commercially Available Transducers in the Rapid Development of a Low-Cost, Flexible, Multi-Directional Acoustic Ranging Device for Use in AUV Collision Avoidance Systems.

• Eric Smith, (M.S. -2003) Ocean Engineering - Thesis: A Modular Control System for Remote Subsea Equipment

• Lee Frey, (M.S. - 2002) Ocean Engineering - Thesis: Development of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle for Sub-Ice Environmental Monitoring in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska

FLORIDA TECH. OCEAN ENGINEERING DESIGN NOTES:

• Hunter Brown: Low-Cost, 5-Wire Global Position Acquisition (GPS)

• Hunter Brown: Low-Cost, One-Way, TTL Fiber Optic Communication

• Mikhail Dembicki: Transmission of Serial Data Using Inductive Data Transfer

• Douglas Guardino: 1) PIC & C18 compiler - Basics of C18; 2) PIC & C18 compiler - Accessing Accelerometers; 3) PIC & C18 compiler - GPS Reader

E-Print Network - Research Communication for Engineers and Scientists (Not just for AUV's & ROV's)

OTHER UNIVERSITIES

Dissertation:

UNDERWATER GLIDERS: DYNAMICS, CONTROL AND DESIGN, Joshua Grady Graver, Princeton University, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, May, 2005

Libraries:

• WHOI Library - Marine Biological Laboratory (Library Catalog) - USA

• Publications By Hanumant Singh, Associate Scientist, Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering Department, WHOI, Ongoing Projects - Docking and Homing of AUVs, Imaging from AUVs, Acoustic Microbathymetry, Fusion of Optical and Acoustic Bathymetry, Fusion of Optical and Acoustic Bathymetry

• Florida Atlantic University Library - USA

• Florida Institute of Technology Library - USA

• Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh Library - Scotland

• Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University - Theses

Conferences:

• Florida Conference on the Recent Advances in Robotics

Institutes:  Also see my other web page ==>>>   Org_pg1.html  <<<===

• USA - Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute -  Publications of HBOI Staff Members

• University of Amsterdam - Netherlands - Intelligent Autonomous Systems Group Lots of information HERE!!!

• France - (LIRMM) TAIPAN - AUV .  Laboratoire d'Informatique de Robotique et de Microélectronique de Montpellier. 161, rue Ada, 34392 Montpellier Cédex 5

• Australia - Centre for Field Robotics (ACFR) Theses & Dissertations

• Portugal - University of Porto - Theses & Dissertations, Papers etc.

DATA FUSION, NEURAL NETWORKS, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, ETC

• National Physics Laboratory (UK's National Measurement Laboratory)

LIBRARY of CONGRESS

MILITARY & GOVERNMENT

• Scientific and Technical Information Network (STINET) Service helps the DoD community access pertinent scientific and technical information to meet mission needs more effectively - Thesis, Dissertations, Documents

• Department of Mechanical and Astronautical Engineering at the Naval Postgraduate School

• Mobile Offshore Base (MOB)

• Naval Command, Control and Ocean Surveillance Center

  • Underwater Docking of Autonomous Undersea Vehicles Using Optical Terminal Guidance

CONFERENCES

• OCEANS 1989. Proceedings

• OCEANS 2003. Proceedings

COMMERCIAL

• UMI Dissertation Services

• Maridan A/S - Denmark - AUV

• OCEANOR - Norway

• Douglas-Westwood, Whitebeams, Pett Bottom, Canterbury, CT4 6EH, UK, Tel: +44 1227 831879, Fax: +44 1227 832092, Email: admin@dw-1.com, DWL specializes in both business and market strategy development, working on a confidential basis for commercial, industrial and government organizations. The geographic scope of our work is worldwide, with associates established in many of the relevant countries. Our work includes development of business strategies and we have been responsible for a number of organisations' business plans. (A lot of FACTS about ocean related activities)

MATH HELP

• S.O.S. MATHematics is your free resource for math review material from Algebra to Differential Equations!

PUBLICATIONS

• Books

• Underwater Publications

• Popular Science Magazine

• Engineering Electronics Library (ENGnetBASE) CRC Press LLC

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.EXAMS

• Fundamentals of Engineering Exam (FE)

• Florida Board of Professional Engineers (PE - exam): Naval Architecture, Mechanical, Electrical, Civil and Environmental Engineering

• Florida Board of Professional Engineers => Continuing Education

OTHER

• Robotics & Machine Perception forum SPIE Technical Group