PUBLICATIONS

• Farrell, J., Wood, S., "An Automated Purge Valve for Marine Salvage," Oceans 2009, Bremen Germany, May 11 - 14, 2009.

• Wood, S.L., “Autonomous Underwater Gliders,” Intelligent Underwater Vehicles, I-Tech Education and Publishing Kirchengasse 43/3, Vienna, Austria, EU, 2009.

• Wood, S.L., “Autonomous Self-Mooring Vehicle - Characterization of a lagoon environment using a portable autonomous self-mooring vehicle,” Sea Technology, Volume 50, No. 1, January 2009.

• Maul, G.A., C. G. Messing, J. K. Reed, R. G. Gilmore, L. Harris, S. Jachec, K. Johnson, S. Wood, G. Zarillo, 2008. Project 3: Central East Florida Shelf Array. Florida COOS Consortium Contract, Report No. RM078 (USF No. 47 10 1074) to Florida DEP. 31 pp., 2008.

• Waldmann, C.; Richter, L.; Wood, S., Deep Sea Crawlers for scientific Applications – an Overview about the State-of-the-Art, EGU General Assembly, 2007-A-11248; GI3-1TU3O-006, Vienna 2007.

• Wood, S.L., Rees, M., Pfeiffer, Z., "An Autonomous Self-Mooring Vehicle for Littoral & Coastal Observations," Oceans 2007, Aberdeen Scotland, June 18 - 21, 2007.
• Wood, S.L., Allan, T., Kuhn, S., Caldwell, J., "The Development of an Autonomous Underwater Powered Glider for Deep-Sea Biological, Chemical and Physical Oceanography," Oceans 2007, Aberdeen Scotland, June 18 - 21, 2007.
• Wood, S.L., "Modular Amphibious Research Crawler - Characterization of the coastal environment using a portable remotely operated crawler," Sea Technology, Volume 47, No. 2, February 2006
• Wood, S.L., Nulph, A., Howell, B.P., "Application of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles - Characterization of the Physical Environment for Development of Environment Based Navigation Systems," Sea Technology, Volume 45, No. 12, December 2004
• Wood, S.L., "Robot Programming Languages - Robot Systems," Chapter in: The CRC Handbook of Mechanical Engineering, 2nd Edition 2004.
• Howell, B.P., Wood, S.L., "Passive Sonar Recognition and Analysis Using Hybrid Neural Networks," OCEANS 2003. Proceedings, Volume: 4, 22-26 Sept. 2003, Pages: 1917 - 1924.
• Frey, C.L., Wood, S.L., "Development of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle for Sub-Ice Environmental Monitoring in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska", OCEANS 2003. Proceedings, Volume: 2, 22-26 Sept. 2003, Pages: 1161-1173.
• Frey, C.L., Buist, L., Kay, A., Wood, S.L., "Development of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle for Sub-Ice Environmental Monitoring in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska", Florida Conference on the Recent Advances in Robotics, May 8-9, 2003.
• Wood, S.L., "Function Driven Design Selection of Plastic Injection Molding Features."  1996 ASME Design for Manufacturing Conference, DFM A W2, Los Angeles, CA, August 18-22.
• Wood, S.L., "Design Reasoning Using Plastic Injection Molding Primary Features."  1996 ASME Design for Manufacturing Conference, DFM M4, Los Angeles, CA, August 18-22.

• Wood, S.L., Ph.D. Dissertation: "An Architecture for a Function Driven Mechanical Design Solution Library," Mechanical Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon September 1, 1994.

• Ullman, D.G., Wood, S.L., and Craig, D.,  "The Importance of Drawing in the Mechanical Design Process." Computer and Graphics, Vol. 14, No.2, 1990.
• Wood, S.L., and R. A. Skop. "Architecture of an Expert System for Oceanographic Mooring Design."  In: Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Artic Engineering; May 1989; v.111: p138-143.

• Wood, S.L., M.S. Thesis: “Architecture of an Expert System for Oceanographic Mooring Design,” Ocean Engineering, University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, (RSMAS), Miami, Florida, December 1987. (click here for pages112 onward)