Propulsion

Submarine

Reliability (semiconductor)

Robot

Instrumentation (computer programming)

Engineering

Artificial intelligence

Power (physics)

Underwater

Physics

Geology

Aerospace engineering

Mobile robot

Remotely operated underwater vehicle

Systems engineering

Quantum mechanics

Operating system

Computer science

Marine engineering

Oceanography

IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Magazine

Oceans exploration and inspection are being a great challenge for the industry nowadays.The underwater instrumentations and measurements are being improving due to the current technologies, or by development new ones, to cover the demand of the new industry offshore.The Autonomous Underwater Vehicles, a subcategory of submarine, is used to perform the subaquatic tasks.This vehicle provides advantages for underwater works, e.g.safety and reliability inspections, but it also offers limitations as sensors systems, monitoring and communications systems, autonomous operational endurances, propulsion systems or mapping designs, etc.The main scientific contributions of this paper are: An review of the state of art in novel and main instrumentation and measurement systems embedded in AUVs; It is showed the future uses and development; The paper synthesis the main and current navigation, mapping and sampling technologies, together with different applications.

Autonomous underwater vehicles: Instrumentation and measurements