Cooperative robotic networks for underwater surveillance: an overview

G Ferri*, A Munafò*, A Tesei, P Braca… - IET Radar, Sonar & …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Underwater surveillance has traditionally been carried out by means of surface and
undersea manned vessels equipped with advanced sensor systems. This approach is often …

Underwater acoustic target tracking: A review

J Luo, Y Han, L Fan - Sensors, 2018 - mdpi.com
Advances in acoustic technology and instrumentation now make it possible to explore
marine resources. As a significant component of ocean exploration, underwater acoustic …

Distributed information fusion in multistatic sensor networks for underwater surveillance

P Braca, R Goldhahn, G Ferri… - IEEE Sensors …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Surveillance in antisubmarine warfare has traditionally been carried out by means of
submarines or frigates with towed arrays. These techniques are manpower intensive …

An autonomous underwater vehicle data-driven control strategy for target tracking

G Ferri, A Munafo, KD LePage - IEEE Journal of Oceanic …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a data-driven approach to control the movement of autonomous
underwater vehicles (AUVs) operating as receivers of a multistatic sonar surveillance …

An acoustic network navigation system

A Munafo, G Ferri - Journal of Field Robotics, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
This work describes a system for acoustic‐based navigation that relies on the addition of
localization services to underwater networks. The localization capability has been added on …

Trajectory Optimization for Target Localization Using Time Delays and Doppler Shifts in Bistatic Sonar-Based Internet of Underwater Things

C Zhang, W Shi, Z Gong, Q Zhang… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Efficient target localization is critical to many marine applications in the Internet of
Underwater Things (IoUT). Doppler effect becomes more predominant in the underwater …

Towards autonomous underwater vehicles in the ocean survey: A mission management system (MMS)

F Yu, B He, J Liu, Q Wang, Y Shen - Ocean Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a mission management system (MMS) to manage target recognition
and path planning for the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) ocean survey. The system …

A market-based task allocation framework for autonomous underwater surveillance networks

G Ferri, A Munafo, A Tesei… - OCEANS 2017-Aberdeen, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Realisation of underwater robotic surveillance networks raises several challenges for
marine robotics. The underwater scenario is typically characterised by intermittent and …

A robust, opportunistic clock synchronization algorithm for ad hoc underwater acoustic networks

A Vermeij, A Munafò - IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Proliferation of deployed sea-going autonomous platforms, such as autonomous underwater
vehicles (AUVs), unmanned surface vehicles (USV), and sensor nodes anchored to the …

An underwater single target tracking method using SiamRPN++ based on inverted residual bottleneck block

Z Wang, J Wang, R Fan - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Traditional tracking algorithms reply on manually extracted features while deep learning
algorithms can automatically extract features, which is of great importance for single target …