Maneuvering Vehicle Localization with an Acoustic Long Baseline System

Authors

  • Zhao Li Harbin Engineering University

Abstract

This paper describes a localization approach which compensates for vehicle motion during the interrogation-reception time interval between the vehicle and transponders in an acoustic long baseline (LBL) system lake trial. In the lake trial, a maneuvering vehicle was localized by both GPS and the LBL system. When localizing the vehicle with the static-vehicle localization model, where the vehicle is assumed to be static during the interrogation-reception time interval, the averaged localization error was found as 19±14 cm by comparing acoustic localization results with GPS data. This error was significant larger than the expected 4 cm posterior uncertainties and the vehicle motion was thought as the main cause of this error. To address this problem, a motion-compensated inversion approach is developed base on Bayesian inversion algorithm which includes travel-time corrections as additional unknown parameters with prior determined by interpolating the vehicle location at interrogation time instants using static-vehicle localization model results. After processing the trial data with the motion-compensated inversion approach, the averaged localization error was decreased to 3.4±1.4 cm, much accurate than the error for the static inversion.

Author Biography

Zhao Li, Harbin Engineering University

College of Underwater Acoustic Engineering

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Published

2015-08-19

How to Cite

1.
Li Z. Maneuvering Vehicle Localization with an Acoustic Long Baseline System. Canadian Acoustics [Internet]. 2015 Aug. 19 [cited 2024 Mar. 28];43(3). Available from: https://jcaa.caa-aca.ca/index.php/jcaa/article/view/2750

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Section

Proceedings of the Acoustics Week in Canada