Advances in single-beacon one-way-travel-time acoustic navigation for underwater vehicles

作者:Webster Sarah E*; Eustice Ryan M; Singh Hanumant; Whitcomb Louis L
来源:The International Journal of Robotics Research, 2012, 31(8): 935-950.
DOI:10.1177/0278364912446166

摘要

This paper reports the formulation and evaluation of a centralized extended Kalman filter designed for a novel navigation system for underwater vehicles. The navigation system employs Doppler sonar, depth sensors, synchronous clocks, and acoustic modems to achieve simultaneous acoustic communication and navigation. The use of a single moving reference beacon eliminates the requirement for the underwater vehicle to remain in a bounded navigable area; the use of underwater modems and synchronous clocks enables range measurements based on one-way time-of-flight information from acoustic data-packet broadcasts. The acoustic data packets are broadcast from a single, moving reference beacon and can be received simultaneously by multiple vehicles within acoustic range. We report results from a simulated deep-water survey and real field data collected from an autonomous underwater vehicle survey in 4000 m of water on the southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge with an independent long-baseline navigation system for ground truth.

  • 出版日期2012-7