WaVeSim - waterv vehicle simulator

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2006

Authors

António Nogueira Santos (Author) FEUP; Aníbal Castilho Coimbra de Matos (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: MCMC’2006 - 7th Conference on Manoeuvring and Control of Marine Craft

Pages: 1-6

Lisboa, Portugal, 20 a 22 de Setembro de 2006

Scientific classification

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

Other information

Abstract (EN): This article introduces a new framework for the simulation of multiple water vehicles operating simultaneously. Its main goal is to be used as a testing tool to help the development and implementation of the vehicles¿ on-board software. This simulator provides real-time realistic dynamic behaviour of underwater and surface vehicles as well as acoustic navigation by simulating acoustic signal propagation and providing acoustic transducers on vehicles and pre-located buoys. Pressure, temperature, condutivity, salinity and sonar sensors emulation is also provided and water flows can also be defined. There should be no intrusion in the existing software and a small SDK is available to help building a broker application that makes the bridge between the software and the simulator, both possibly running on different network peers. A provided 3D visualization system may also be used to control and watch the simulation.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 6