Modeling and Simulation of Motion of an Underwater Robot Glider for Shallow-water Ocean Applications

This paper describes the modeling and simulation of an underwater robot glider used in the shallow-water environment. We followed the Equations of motion derived by [2] and simplified dynamic Equations of motion of an underwater glider according to our underwater glider. A simulation code is built and operated in the MATLAB Simulink environment so that we can make improvements to our testing glider design. It may be also used to validate a robot glider design.

Authors:

• Chen Wang
• Amir Anvar

Keywords:

• AUV
• underwater glider
• robot
• modeling
• simulation.

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