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Autonomous Vehicles in Support of Naval Operations

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Author(s): Committee on Autonomous Vehicles in Support of Naval Operations, National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Year: 2005

Language: English
Pages: 255

Front Matter......Page 2
Preface......Page 8
Acknowledgment of Reviewers......Page 14
Contents......Page 16
Executive Summary......Page 20
1 Introduction......Page 32
2 Naval Vision: Operations and Autonomous Vehicle Applications......Page 39
3 Autonomy Technology: Capabilities and Potential......Page 64
4 Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Capabilities and Potential......Page 101
5 Unmanned Surface and Undersea Vehicles: Capabilities and Potential......Page 135
6 Unmanned Ground Vehicles: Capabilities and Potential......Page 154
7 Integrating Autonomy in Network-Centric Operations......Page 177
Appendixes......Page 206
A Biographies of Committee Members and Staff......Page 208
B Some Physics-Based Constraints on Autonomous Vehicles: Scaling, Energy, Sensing, and Communications......Page 218
C Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: System Descriptions......Page 235
D Acronyms and Abbreviations......Page 250