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Complementary terrain/single beacon-based AUV navigation

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Title Complementary terrain/single beacon-based AUV navigation
 
Creator Maurya, P.
Curado, T.F.
António, P.
 
Subject OCEANOGRAPHIC SUPPORT SERVICES
MARINE TECHNOLOGY
 
Description This paper describes work done towards the development of advanced geophysical-based navigation systems for autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). The specific problem that we tackle is that of combining terrain-aided navigation (TAN) with single-beacon navigation (SBN) techniques. The resulting complementary TAN/SBN system has the potential to overcome some of the problems that arise with TAN navigation only, when an AUV undergoes motions that lead it temporarily across areas where the terrain below is not sufficiently "rich" in terms of topographic features. The key contribution of this paper is a formal analysis of the benefits of using complementary filtering, in opposition to TAN navigation only. To this effect, we exploit key tools of estimation theory, and in particular the Cramér-Rao lower bound inequality to obtain a lower bound on the minimum covariance of the estimation error that can be obtained with any unbiased estimator. For a real terrain profile we compute and compare the Cramér-Rao lower bounds for TAN only and TA/SB-based navigation. The increase in the expected performance that can be achieved with the second solution is clearly visible. The efficacy of the new solution proposed is illustrated with the help of computer simulations
 
Date 2015-10-26T07:33:49Z
2015-10-26T07:33:49Z
2015
 
Type Conference Article
 
Identifier Navigation, Guidance and Control of Underwater Vehicles, vol.3(1); 2015; 76-83
http://drs.nio.org/drs/handle/2264/4806
 
Language en
 
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Publisher University of Porto