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Ocean Systems Engineering Volume 1, Number 4, December 2011 , pages 297-315 DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/ose.2011.1.4.297 |
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The effect of vehicle velocity and drift angle on through-body AUV tunnel thruster performance |
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Aaron Saunders and Meyer Nahon
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| Abstract | ||
| New applications of streamlined Autonomous Underwater Vehicles require an AUV capable of completing missions with both high-speed straight-line runs and slow maneuvers or station keeping tasks. At low, or zero, forward speeds, the AUV | ||
| Key Words | ||
| autonomous underwater vehicles; AUV thrusters; through-body thrusters; tunnel thrusters; thruster modeling. | ||
| Address | ||
| Aaron Saunders : Boston Dynamics, Waltham MA 02451, USA Meyer Nahon : Mechanical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, H3A 2K6 | ||
