• AUV
• FPGA
• signal processing

The idea of this thesis comes out from the participation of the University of Central Florida to the Annual International Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition of 2007. The objective of this competition is to make the AUV to accomplish to a specific route. A part of this route expects the AUV to detect a ping and following it as a source. The objective of this thesis is to improve the performance of this trajectory tracking. A Field Programmable Logic Array will be used to perform an effective Digital Signal Processing.