NPS AUV Workbench: Dissertations

All NPS theses and dissertations are searchable online via the Bosun search engine at the Dudley Knox Library.

The following dissertations are included in the NPS AUV Workbench documentation distribution.

• Brutzman, Donald P., A Virtual World for an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle, Ph.D. Dissertation, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey California, December 1994.
• Byrnes, Ronald B., The Rational Behavior Model: a Multi-Paradigm, Tri-Level Software Architecture for the Control of Autonomous Vehicles, Ph.D. Dissertation, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey California, March 1993.
• Davis, Duane T., Design, Implementation and Testing of a Common Data Model Supporting Autonomous Vehicle Compatibility and Interoperability, Ph.D. Dissertation, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey California, September 2006.
• DelTheil, Caroline, Une Metholodolgie pour l'Analyse et la Modelisation Causales de Systemes Hydrides Complexes Application a la Modelisation Comportementale d'un Vehicule Sous-marin Autonome (A Methodology for Analyzing and Simulating Dynamics of Complex Hybrid Systems, Applied to the Modeled Behavior of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle), Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Paris no. 6, France, 1998.
• Marco, David B., Autonomous Control of Underwater Vehicles and Local Area Maneuvering, Ph.D. Dissertation, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey California, September 1996.
• Marr, William J., Acoustic Based Tactical Control of Underwater Vehicles, Ph.D. Dissertation, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey California, June 2003.
• Nicholson, John W., Autonomous Optimal Rendezvous of Underwater Vehicles, Ph.D. Dissertation, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey California, September 2004.
• Russo dos Santos, Cristina, 3D Metaphoric Information Visualization, Ph.D. Dissertation, Telecom Paris - Institut Eurecom, Sophia-Antipolis France, June 2002.