Multi-sensor based AUV with distributed vehicle management architecture

The authors introduce a project to build a multisensor-based autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) named the Twin-Burger, which is the newest vehicle of the Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo. The Twin-Burger is being designed as a versatile testbed on which the techniques as represented by software architectures can be implemented and tested. The first in-water experiment is expected in 1992. The distributed vehicle management architecture is proposed as a software architecture for the Twin-Burger. The architecture is being developed to approach the most critical problem in the distributed system, that is, how to manage heterogeneous software modules in a homogeneous structure. Performance of the software developed for this management system will be tested using a multipurpose environment simulator.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>