A Cooperative Architecture to Localize Targets for Underwater Vehicles

A Cooperative Architecture to Localize Targets for Underwater Vehicles
Author: Assia Belbachir
Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2012
Genre:
ISBN: 9783659131899

Underwater target localization using several autonomous underwater vehicles(AUVs) is a challenging issue. A systematic and exhaustive coverage strategy is not efficient in term of exploration time: it can be improved by making the AUVs share their information and cooperate to optimize their motions. Communication points are required to make underwater vehicles exchange information: for that purpose the system involves one autonomous surface vehicle (ASV), which helps the AUVs to re-localize and to exchange data, and two AUVs that adapt their strategy according to gathered information, while satisfying the associated communication constraints. Each AUV is endowed with a sensor that estimates its distance with respect to targets, and cooperates with others to explore an area with the help of an ASV. To provide the required autonomy for these vehicles, we built upon an existing system with additional components, which provides an embedded planning and execution control framework. Simulation results are carried out to evaluate the proposed architecture and adaptive exploration strategy.

Cooperative Localization and Navigation

Cooperative Localization and Navigation
Author: Chao Gao
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 731
Release: 2019-08-21
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0429016670

This book captures the latest results and techniques for cooperative localization and navigation drawn from a broad array of disciplines. It provides the reader with a generic and comprehensive view of modeling, strategies, and state estimation methodologies in that fields. It discusses the most recent research and novel advances in that direction, exploring the design of algorithms and architectures, benefits, and challenging aspects, as well as a potential broad array of disciplines, including wireless communication, indoor localization, robotics, emergency rescue, motion analysis, etc.

Cooperative Localization for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

Cooperative Localization for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
Author: Alexander Bahr
Publisher:
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2009
Genre: Remote submersibles
ISBN:

Self-localization of an underwater vehicle is particularly challenging due to the absence of Global Positioning System (GPS) reception or features at known positions that could otherwise have been used for position computation. Thus Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) applications typically require the pre-deployment of a set of beacons.This thesis examines the scenario in which the members of a, group of AUVs exchange navigation information with one another so as to improve their individual position estimates. We describe how the underwater environment poses unique challenges to vehicle navigation not encountered in other environments in which robots operate and how cooperation can improve the performance of self-localization. As intra-vehicle communication is crucial to cooperation, we also address the constraints of the communication channel and the effect that these constraints have on the design of cooperation strategies. The classical approaches to underwater self-localization of a single vehicle, as well as more recently developed techniques are presented. We then examine how methods used for cooperating land-vehicles can be transferred to the underwater domain. An algorithm for distributed self-localization, which is designed to take the specific characteristics of the environment into account, is proposed. We also address how correlated position estimates of cooperating vehicles can lead to overconfidence in individual position estimates. Finally, key to any successful cooperative navigation strategy is the incorporation of the relative positioning between vehicles. The performance of localization algorithms with different geometries is analyzed and a distributed algorithm for the dynamic positioning of vehicles, which serve as dedicated navigation beacons for a fleet of AUVs, is proposed.

Localization in Underwater Sensor Networks

Localization in Underwater Sensor Networks
Author: Jing Yan
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2021-10-27
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 981164831X

Ocean covers 70.8% of the Earth’s surface, and it plays an important role in supporting all life on Earth. Nonetheless, more than 80% of the ocean’s volume remains unmapped, unobserved and unexplored. In this regard, Underwater Sensor Networks (USNs), which offer ubiquitous computation, efficient communication and reliable control, are emerging as a promising solution to understand and explore the ocean. In order to support the application of USNs, accurate position information from sensor nodes is required to correctly analyze and interpret the data sampled. However, the openness and weak communication characteristics of USNs make underwater localization much more challenging in comparison to terrestrial sensor networks. In this book, we focus on the localization problem in USNs, taking into account the unique characteristics of the underwater environment. This problem is of considerable importance, since fundamental guidance on the design and analysis of USN localization is very limited at present. To this end, we first introduce the network architecture of USNs and briefly review previous approaches to the localization of USNs. Then, the asynchronous clock, node mobility, stratification effect, privacy preserving and attack detection are considered respectively and corresponding localization schemes are developed. Lastly, the book’s rich implications provide guidance on the design of future USN localization schemes. The results in this book reveal from a system perspective that underwater localization accuracy is closely related to the communication protocol and optimization estimator. Researchers, scientists and engineers in the field of USNs can benefit greatly from this book, which provides a wealth of information, useful methods and practical algorithms to help understand and explore the ocean.

Dynamics of Information Systems

Dynamics of Information Systems
Author: Michael Hirsch
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2010-04-11
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1441956891

"Dynamics of Information Systems" presents state-of-the-art research explaining the importance of information in the evolution of a distributed or networked system. This book presents techniques for measuring the value or significance of information within the context of a system. Each chapter reveals a unique topic or perspective from experts in this exciting area of research. This volume is intended for graduate students and researchers interested in the most recent developments in information theory and dynamical systems, as well as scientists in other fields interested in the application of these principles to their own area of study.

Cooperative Localization for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles in Strong Ocean Currents

Cooperative Localization for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles in Strong Ocean Currents
Author: Zhuoyuan Song
Publisher:
Total Pages: 86
Release: 2014
Genre:
ISBN:

Unavailability of GPS (global positioning system) for underwater navigation has created significant challenges for operation and localization of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). This is more pronounced in dynamic ocean flows where significant background flows exist. In this thesis, a collaborative underwater localization hierarchy is introduced to improve the cooperative performance of a small AUV swarm by utilizing vehicles with bounded localization error as moving references in the presence of dominating background flows. Initially represented in probability theory, the problem is then decomposed into a cooperative localization problem and a dynamic simultaneous localization and mapping problem with moving features. To address the incomplete covariance updating issue, which arises when directly applying the extended Kalman filter in fully distributed systems, the modified extended Kalman filter (MEKF) is proposed and a MEKF based algorithm is discussed in detail. A particle filter based algorithm is implemented for comparative purposes due to its advantages in modeling multimodal non-Gaussian distributions. However, it is shown that the particle filter requires greater computational effort than the MEKF when the number of vehicles is small. Both proposed algorithms are verified in three-dimensional background flow simulations. The divergent behavior of localization error, which appears when using solely cooperative localization, is avoided through the implementation of either the MEKF algorithm or the particle algorithm. Significant decreases in localization error are subsequently observed.

Intelligent Systems'2014

Intelligent Systems'2014
Author: D. Filev
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 893
Release: 2014-09-20
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3319113100

This two volume set of books constitutes the proceedings of the 2014 7th IEEE International Conference Intelligent Systems (IS), or IEEE IS’2014 for short, held on September 24‐26, 2014 in Warsaw, Poland. Moreover, it contains some selected papers from the collocated IWIFSGN'2014-Thirteenth International Workshop on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets and Generalized Nets.The conference was organized by the Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Department IV of Engineering Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences, and Industrial Institute of Automation and Measurements - PIAP.The papers included in the two proceedings volumes have been subject to a thorough review process by three highly qualified peer reviewers.Comments and suggestions from them have considerable helped improve the quality of the papers but also the division of the volumes into parts, and assignment of the papers to the best suited parts.

Underwater Vehicles

Underwater Vehicles
Author: Alexander Inzartsev
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 596
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 9537619494

For the latest twenty to thirty years, a significant number of AUVs has been created for the solving of wide spectrum of scientific and applied tasks of ocean development and research. For the short time period the AUVs have shown the efficiency at performance of complex search and inspection works and opened a number of new important applications. Initially the information about AUVs had mainly review-advertising character but now more attention is paid to practical achievements, problems and systems technologies. AUVs are losing their prototype status and have become a fully operational, reliable and effective tool and modern multi-purpose AUVs represent the new class of underwater robotic objects with inherent tasks and practical applications, particular features of technology, systems structure and functional properties.

Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
Author: Jing Yan
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2021-11-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9811660964

Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are emerging as a promising solution to help us explore and understand the ocean. The global market for AUVs is predicted to grow from 638 million dollars in 2020 to 1,638 million dollars by 2025 – a compound annual growth rate of 20.8 percent. To make AUVs suitable for a wider range of application-specific missions, it is necessary to deploy multiple AUVs to cooperatively perform the localization, tracking and formation tasks. However, weak underwater acoustic communication and the model uncertainty of AUVs make achieving this challenging. This book presents cutting-edge results regarding localization, tracking and formation for AUVs, highlighting the latest research on commonly encountered AUV systems. It also showcases several joint localization and tracking solutions for AUVs. Lastly, it discusses future research directions and provides guidance on the design of future localization, tracking and formation schemes for AUVs. Representing a substantial contribution to nonlinear system theory, robotic control theory, and underwater acoustic communication system, this book will appeal to university researchers, scientists, engineers, and graduate students in control theory and control engineering who wish to learn about the core principles, methods, algorithms, and applications of AUVs. Moreover, the practical localization, tracking and formation schemes presented provide guidance on exploring the ocean. The book is intended for those with an understanding of nonlinear system theory, robotic control theory, and underwater acoustic communication systems.