The Influence of Parameters of Biomimetic Underwater Vehicle Control System on the Ability of the Vehicle to Avoid Obstacles

Autonomous underwater vehicles are vehicles that are entirely or partly independent of human decisions. In order to obtain operational independence, the vehicles have to be equipped with a specialized software that usually has many different parameters. The parameters decide about effectiveness of the software and in consequence the vehicle. The paper reports experiments performed in simulation, whose goal was to analyze the influence of selected parameters of High- -level Control System of Biomimetic Underwater Vehicle on the vehicle ability to avoid obstacles.