Ettore Apolonio de Barros

• Abstract

  Autonomous underwater vehicles, AUVs, have been widely applied to missions in the fields of oceanography, support to the oil exploration industry, and military applications. For more than one decade, the Unmanned Vehicles Laboratory investigates unmanned aquatic vehicles. In particular, the Pirajuba AUV was created and proposed for a number of studies regarding this kind of technology and…

  Adaptive sensor fusion applied to AUV navigation, AP.R

• Abstract

  Thin layers are oceanographic features comprised by aggregations of suspended particulate matter and plankton retained in dense concentrations within a small vertical thickness (usually < 3 m). Such structures are characterized as hot spots of biogeochemical activity in stratified oceans, but there are no studies on their occurrence and persistence in coastal ecosystems of the southern he…

  Thin layer detection by an autonomous underwater vehicle in a coastal ecosystem: the ECOAUV Project, AP.R

• Abstract

  This research project deals with hydrodynamic modeling and parameter optimization of Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) geometry. The main approach for prediction and optimization is based on CFD techniques. The proposed research plan represents the continuity of other investigations supported by FAPESP on prediction of hydrodynamic derivatives of AUVs (see project number 07/56646-5). In…

  Numerical investigation on autonomous underwater vehicle hydrodynamics, AP.R

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