Acknowledgement
This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MSIT) (No. NRF-2022R1C1C1010931) and was supported by a grant from Endowment Projects of "Development of core technology for cooperative navigation of multiple marine robots and underwater wireless cognitive network" funded by Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean engineering under Grant PES4810
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