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Analysis and innovation of key technologies for autonomous underwater vehicles

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As the mission needs of the autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV) have become increasingly varied and complex, the AUVs are developing in the direction of systematism, multifunction, and clustering technology, which promotes the progress of key technologies and proposes a series of technical problems. Therefore, it is necessary to make systemic analysis and in-depth study for the progress of AUV’s key technologies and innovative applications. The multi-functional mission needs and its key technologies involved in complex sea conditions are pointed out through analyzing the domestic and foreign technical programs, functional characteristics and future development plans. Furthermore, the overall design of a multi-moving state AUV is proposed. Then, technical innovations of the key technologies, such as thrust vector, propeller design, kinematics and dynamics, navigation control, and ambient flow field characteristics, are made, combining with the structural characteristics and motion characteristics of the new multi-moving state AUV. The results verify the good performance of the multi-moving state AUV and provide a theoretical guidance and technical support for the design of new AUV in real complex sea conditions.

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  1. Department of Shipboard Aviation Security and Station Management, Naval Aeronautical Engineering Academy, Qingdao, 266041, China

    Fu-dong Gao  (高富东), Hai-dong Wang  (王海东) & Nan Xu  (徐男)

  2. SANY Heavy Industry Co. Ltd, Changsha, 410100, China

    Yan-yan Han  (韩艳艳)

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Foundation item: Project(ZR2014EEP019) supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province, China; Project(51505491) supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China

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Gao, Fd., Han, Yy., Wang, Hd. et al. Analysis and innovation of key technologies for autonomous underwater vehicles. J. Cent. South Univ. 22, 3347–3357 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11771-015-2875-1

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