<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">B. Chen</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">D. Pompili</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Team Formation and Steering Algorithms for Underwater Gliders using Acoustic Communications</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Computer Communication (Elsevier)</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2012</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">May</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">35</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1017-1028</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">In order to take measurements in space and time from the undersampled vast ocean, it is necessary to
employ multiple autonomous underwater vehicles, such as gliders, that communicate and coordinate
with each other. These vehicles need to form a team in a speciﬁc formation, steer through the 3D region
of interest, and take application-dependent measurements such as temperature and salinity. In this article, team formation and steering algorithms relying on underwater acoustic communications are proposed in order to enable glider swarming that is robust against ocean currents and acoustic channel
impairments (e.g., high propagation and transmission delay, and low communication reliability). Performance of the proposed algorithms is evaluated and compared against existing solutions, which do not
rely on underwater communications, using different ocean current models.</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">9</style></issue></record></records></xml>