Found this neat PC104 report:
Hardware Integration of the Small Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Navigation System (SANS) Using a PC/104 Computer
This is a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A302263. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: At the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), a small AUV navigation system (SANS) has been developed for research in support of shallow-water mine countermeasures and coastal environmental monitoring. The objective of this thesis is to develop a new version of SANS, aimed at reducing size and increasing reliability by utilizing state-of-the-art hardware components. The new hardware configuration uses a PC/104 computer system, and a Crossbow DMU-VG Six-Axis Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU). The PC/104 computer provides more computing power and more importantly, increases the reliability and compatibility of the system. Replacing the old IMU with a Crossbow IMU' eliminates the need for an analog-to-digital (A/D) converter, and thus reduces the overall size of the SANS. The new hardware components are integrated into a working system. A software interface is developed for each component. An asynchronous Kalman filter is implemented in the current SANS system as a navigation filter. Bench testing is conducted and indicates that the system works properly. The new components reduce the size of the system by 52% and increase the sampling rate to more than 80Hz.
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Hardware Integration of the Small Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Navigation System (SANS) Using a PC/104 Computer
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