State-of-the-Art System Solutions for Unmanned Underwater Vehicles

Abstract. Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs) have gained popularity for the last decades, especially for the purpose of not risking human life in dangerous operations. On the other hand, underwater environment introduces numerous challenges in navigation, control and communi-cation of such vehicles. Certainly, this fact makes the development of these vehicles more interesting and engi-neering-wise more attractive. In this paper, we first revisit the existing technology and methodology for the solution of aforementioned problems, then we try to come up with a system solution of a generic unmanned underwater vehicles. Keywords Unmanned underwater vehicle, autonomous underwater vehicle, navigation, control and guidance, underwater communications, systems engineering, software framework. 1.