Project Number
- 93
Title
- A Virtual World for an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
Description
- Virtual environment testbed for autonomous underwater vehicle design and evaluation.
Contact
- Don Brutzman
Affiliation
- Naval Postgraduate School
Address
- Code OR/BR
- Monterey, California 93943-5000
- +1.408.656.2149
- +1.408.656.2595 fax
- Monterey, California 93943-5000
- brutzman@nps.navy.mil
WWW
Year
- 1994
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 94 Visual Proceedings
Project Details
- "A networked robot and virtual world makes [underwater and deep sea] robotics research and collaboration accessible worldwide. This project presents the frontier of 3D real-time graphics for underwater robotics, ocean exploration, sonar visualization, and worldwide scientific collaboration."
- Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) design and development for remote and hazardous environments is greatly improved by the ability to simulate and test designs in detailed virtual worlds. Exact copies of robot hardware and software are plugged into the virtual world using physical or logical sensor and actuator connections to minimize testing error.
- Simulation results of this type of robotic Turing test have been promising.
Sight
- graphics workstation, display
Sound
Touch
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 3 - Functional, Reproducable, Adoption
Intent
- 3 - Application (expression, enabler)
Primary
- 303 - simulator / simulation
Secondary
- 201 - virtual environment
Remarks
- Implementation details undocumented.
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