Engineering Intelligent Undersea Vehicles

摘要

Abstract : Artificial intelligence (AI) techniques have been applied to, and developed for, robotic vehicles. However, the AI approach has not produced a specific methodology for engineering robotic vehicles. Future vehicles need to be engineered with intelligence being an emergent property of their behavior. Producing mission specific behaviors, rather than 'intelligence' directly, is an alternative engineering goal worth consideration. For the rapid development of mission-specific vehicles, application-specific computer-aided engineering (CAE) tolls need to be developed. Given that robotics will be a regular component of the future, extensible engineering methods need to be developed for the design and implementation of deliverable mission-specific vehicles. A review and survey of topics related to this approach are given, and a new approach to engineering vehicles is recommended. Keywords: Teleoperation; Underwater vehicles; Telerobotics; Reprints.