Marine robots for underwater surveillance

DS Terracciano, L Bazzarello, A Caiti, R Costanzi… - Current Robotics …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review The paper reviews the role of marine robots, in particular
unmanned vehicles, in underwater surveillance, ie the control and monitoring of an area of …

Single acoustic vector sensor DOA enhanced by unsaturated bistable stochastic resonance with linear amplitude response constrained

J Suo, H Wang, H Dong, X Shen, Y Yan, H Zhang - Applied Acoustics, 2023 - Elsevier
Acoustic vector sensors (AVS) are increasingly utilized for remote target passive perception,
but accurate direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation remains a formidable challenge …

Ship detection and tracking from single ocean-bottom seismic and hydroacoustic stations

A Trabattoni, G Barruol, R Dréo… - The Journal of the …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
We report in this study how ocean-bottom seismometers (OBS) can be used as passive
sonars to automatically detect, localize, and track moving acoustic sources at the ocean …

Dynamic-thermal modeling and motion analysis for deep-sea glider with passive buoyancy compensation liquid

Y Liang, L Zhang, Y Wang, Y Yang, S Yang, W Niu - Ocean Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
The passive buoyancy compensation liquid (PBCL) has been widely used in underwater
vehicles operating in deep-sea environments to reduce buoyancy loss caused by hull …

Detection and localization of multiple ships using acoustic vector sensors on buoyancy gliders: Practical design considerations and experimental verifications

R Dreo, A Trabattoni, P Stinco… - IEEE Journal of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Real-time detection of illegal activities in maritime areas, such as drug trafficking or illegal
fishing, is a very challenging task. It generally requires important and expensive means …

Passive bearing estimation using a 2-D acoustic vector sensor mounted on a hybrid autonomous underwater vehicle

DS Terracciano, R Costanzi, V Manzari… - IEEE Journal of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The bearing estimation problem of low-frequency underwater acoustic sources is of
paramount importance in antisubmarine warfare and passive acoustic monitoring …

Detection of envelope modulation and direction of arrival estimation of multiple noise sources with an acoustic vector sensor

P Stinco, A Tesei, R Dreo, M Micheli - The Journal of the Acoustical …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
The Detection of Envelope Modulation on Noise (DEMON) is an algorithm that is commonly
applied to hydrophone data for the detection and classification of underwater noise …

Tracking multiple surface vessels with an autonomous underwater vehicle: Field results

A Wolek, J McMahon, BR Dzikowicz… - IEEE Journal of …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article describes the development and testing of a passive sonar, multitarget tracker,
and adaptive behavior that enable an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) to detect and …

Striation-based broadband source localization using a particle velocity sensor in deep water

Y Wu, W Guo, F Wang, B Zhang… - IEEE Journal of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Depth-related striations in the acoustic intensities due to interference between the direct and
sea surface reflected arrivals have been exploited to estimate the source depth by vertical …

A robotic cooperative network for localising a submarine in distress: results from REPMUS21

G Ferri, A Faggiani, R Petroccia… - … on Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomy, cooperation and data fusion can increase the performance of robotic networks in
many underwater applications. In this paper, we describe a novel occupancy grid (OG) …