Three Dimensional Localisation in Underwater Swarms through a Kalman Approach

Fabio Fratichini, Stefano Chiesa, Sergio Taraglio

2013

Abstract

A three dimensional localisation algorithm for a swarm of underwater vehicles is presented. The proposed approach is grounded on an extended Kalman filter (EKF) scheme used to fuse some proprioceptive data such as the vessel’s speed and some esteroceptive measurement such as the time of flight (TOF) sonar distance of the companion vessels. The results of several simulations are presented. Some considerations about the available underwater bandwidth and the communication needed by the approach are discussed.

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Fratichini F., Chiesa S. and Taraglio S. (2013). Three Dimensional Localisation in Underwater Swarms through a Kalman Approach . In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO, ISBN 978-989-8565-71-6, pages 215-221. DOI: 10.5220/0004457502150221


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@conference{icinco13,
author={Fabio Fratichini and Stefano Chiesa and Sergio Taraglio},
title={Three Dimensional Localisation in Underwater Swarms through a Kalman Approach},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO,},
year={2013},
pages={215-221},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004457502150221},
isbn={978-989-8565-71-6},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO,
TI - Three Dimensional Localisation in Underwater Swarms through a Kalman Approach
SN - 978-989-8565-71-6
AU - Fratichini F.
AU - Chiesa S.
AU - Taraglio S.
PY - 2013
SP - 215
EP - 221
DO - 10.5220/0004457502150221