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A conical laser light-sectioning method for navigation of autonomous underwater vehicles for internal inspection of pipelines
P. V. Unnikrishnan, Blair Thornton, Tamaki Ura & Yoshiaki Nose, 2009
DOI: 10.1109/OCEANSE.2009.5278263
Type: conference
Estimation of the hydrodynamic coefficients of the complex-shaped autonomous underwater vehicle TUNA-SAND
Sulin Tang, Tamaki Ura, Takeshi Nakatani, Blair Thornton & Tao Jiang, 2009, Journal of Marine Science and Technology, 14(3), 373-386
DOI: 10.1007/s00773-009-0055-4
Type: article
Combined energy storage and three-axis attitude control of a gyroscopically actuated AUV
Blair Thornton, Tamaki Ura & Yoshiaki Nose, 2009
DOI: 10.1109/OCEANS.2008.5151885
Type: conference
Mapping the inside of a water pipe with an underwater robot
Adrian Bodenmann, Blair Thornton, Tamaki Ura & Unnikrishnan V. Painumgal , 2009
DOI: 10.1299/jsmermd.2009._1P1-B02_1
Type: conference
Visual mapping of internal pipe walls using sparse features for application on board autonomous underwater vehicles
Adrian Bodenmann, Blair Thornton, Tamaki Ura & Unnikrishnan V. Painumgal , 2009
DOI: 10.1109/OCEANSE.2009.5278231
Type: conference
Wind-up AUVs
Blair Thornton, Tamaki Ura & Yoshiaki Nose, 2008
DOI: 10.1109/OCEANS.2007.4449149
Type: conference
Zero-G class underwater robots: unrestricted attitude control using control moment gyros
Blair Thornton, Tamaki Ura, Yoshiaki Nose & Stephen Turnock, 2007, IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 32(3), 565-583
DOI: 10.1109/JOE.2007.899274
Type: article