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Autonomous Vehicles in Support of Naval Operations

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Size: 256 pages, 6 x 9

Publication Year:2005

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Committee on Autonomous Vehicles in Support of Naval Operations, National Research Council
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Front Matter	i-xviii
Executive Summary	1-12	(skim)
1 Introduction	13-19	(skim)
2 Naval Vision: Operations and Autonomous Vehicle Applications	20-44	(skim)
3 Autonomy Technology: Capabilities and Potential	45-81	(skim)
4 Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Capabilities and Potential	82-115	(skim)
5 Unmanned Surface and Undersea Vehicles: Capabilities and Potential	116-134	(skim)
6 Unmanned Ground Vehicles: Capabilities and Potential	135-157	(skim)
7 Integrating Autonomy in Network-Centric Operations	158-186	(skim)
Appendix A Biographies of Committee Members and Staff	187-198	(skim)
Appendix B Some Physics-Based Constraints on Autonomous Vehicles: Scaling, Energy, Sensing, and Communications	199-215	(skim)
Appendix C Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: System Descriptions	216-230	(skim)
Appendix D Acronyms and Abbreviations	231-238	(skim)

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