Zarco - An autonomous craft for underwater surveys

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2007

Authors

Nuno Cruz (Author) FEUP; Aníbal Matos (Author) FEUP; Sérgio Cunha (Author) FEUP; Sérgio Oliveira da Silva (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: 7th Geomatic Week

Pages: 1-8

7th Geomatic Week-

Barcelona, Spain, February 2007

Scientific classification

FOS: Engineering and technology > Electrical engineering, Electronic engineering, Information engineering

Other information

Abstract (EN): The autonomous surface craft (ASC) Zarco is a small size craft developed at Porto University and designed to perform autonomous missions mainly in river dams and estuarine environments, either serving as a moving navigation beacon for underwater vehicles or collecting high resolution interferometric synthetic aperture sonar (In-SAS) data. This paper describes the main systems of Zarco and presents preliminary results concerning the performance of the on-board control system, obtained in test missions. Another paper presented in this conference addresses the In-SAS system

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 8