The proposed development and deployment of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) can pose a serious threat to friendly forces in the event of AUV system malfunction. For the AUV to be acceptable to existing operational forces, it must therefore possess exceptional reliability. This paper presents control system design techniques which can provide this necessary level of fault tolerance.
Published in:
Unmanned Untethered Submersible Technology, Proceedings of the 1987 5th International Symposium on
(Volume:5
)
Date of Conference: Jun 1987