Localization and Tracking of Underwater Physical Systems

Patrick Carroll; Shengli Zhou; Hao Zhou; Jun-Hong Cui; Peter Willett

6th International ICST Conference on Communications and Networking in China

Research Article

Localization and Tracking of Underwater Physical Systems

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/ChinaCom.2011.6158312,
    author={Patrick Carroll and Shengli Zhou and Hao Zhou and Jun-Hong Cui and Peter Willett},
    title={Localization and Tracking of Underwater Physical Systems},
    proceedings={6th International ICST Conference on Communications and Networking in China},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={CHINACOM},
    year={2012},
    month={3},
    keywords={localization tracking underwater system acoustic communications},
    doi={10.1109/ChinaCom.2011.6158312}
}

Patrick Carroll
Shengli Zhou
Hao Zhou
Jun-Hong Cui
Peter Willett
Year: 2012
Localization and Tracking of Underwater Physical Systems
CHINACOM
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ChinaCom.2011.6158312

Patrick Carroll¹, Shengli Zhou¹^,*, Hao Zhou¹, Jun-Hong Cui¹, Peter Willett¹

1: University of Connecticut

*Contact email: shengli@engr.uconn.edu

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the problem of localizing an underwater sensor node based on message broadcasting from multiple surface nodes. With the time-of-arrival measurements from a DSP-based multicarrier modem, each sensor node localizes itself based on the travel time differences among multiple senders to the receiver. Using one-way message passing, such a solution can scale to accommodate a large number of nodes in a network. Continuing on our preliminary work in [1], we in this paper focus on the tracking solutions at the node processing layer. We present simulation results as well as testing results in a swimming pool with both stationary and moving receivers.

Keywords: localization tracking underwater system acoustic communications

Published: 2012-03-27
Publisher: IEEE

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ChinaCom.2011.6158312