• International Journal of Ocean System Engineering
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.102-109
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• 2011

This paper describes the implementation of a precise underwater navigation solution using a multiple sensor fusion technique based on USBL, GPS, DVL and AHRS measurements for the operation of a remotely operated mine disposal vehicle (MDV). The estimation of accurate 6DOF positions and attitudes is the key factor in executing dangerous and complicated missions. To implement the precise underwater navigation, two strategies are chosen in this paper. Firstly, the sensor frame alignment to the body frame is conducted to enhance the performance of a standalone dead-reckoning algorithm. Secondly, absolute position data measured by USBL is fused to prevent cumulative integration error. The heading alignment error is identified by comparing the measured absolute positions with the DR algorithm results. The performance of the developed approach is evaluated with the experimental data acquired by MDV in the South-sea trial.

• Ocean Systems Engineering
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.71-77
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• 2013

The effective tracking area of ultra short baseline (USBL) systems strongly relates to the safety of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). This problem has not been studied previously. A method for determining the effective tracking area using acoustic theory is proposed. Ray acoustic equations are used to draw rays which ascertain the effective space. The sonar equation is established in order to discover the available range of the USBL system and the background noise level using sonar characteristics. The available range defines a hemisphere like enclosure. The overlap of the effective space with the hemisphere is the effective area for USBL systems tracking AUVs. Lake and sea trials show the proposed method's validity.

• 한국해양공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양공학회 2003년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.27-31
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• 2003

Underwater acoustic navigation systems are classified into three systems: ultra-short baseline (USBL), short baseline (SBL), and long baseline (LBL). Because the USBL system estimates the angle of a submersible, the estimation error becomes large if the submersible is far from the USBL transducer array mounted under a support vessel. SBL and LBL systems estimate submersible's location more accurately because they have wider distribution of measuring sensors. Especially LBL systems are widely used as a navigation system for deep ocean applications. Although it is most accurate system it still has estimation errors because of noise, measurement error, refraction and multi-path of acoustic signal, or wrong information of the distributed transponders. In this paper the estimation error of the LBL system are analyzed from a point of sensitivity. It is assumed that the error exists only in the distance between a submersible and the transponders. For this purpose sensitivity of the estimated position with respect to relative distances between them is analyzed. The result says that estimation error is small if the submersible is close to transponders but not near the ocean bottom.

• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.335-339
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• 2005

The underwater positioning system is important in interpreting data that are acquired from towing vehicles such as the deep-sea camera (DSC) system. Currently, several acoustic positioning systems such as long baseline (LBL), short baseline (SBL), and ultra short baseline (USBL), are used for underwater positioning. The accurate position of DSC, however, could not be determined in a R/V Onnuri unequipped with any of these underwater positioning systems. As an alternative, the DSC position was estimated based on the topography of towing track and cable length in the cruises before 1999. The great uncertainties, however, were found in the areas of flat bottom topography. In the 2003 and 2004 cruises these uncertainties were reduced by calculating the position of DSC with the cable length and seafloor depth below the vessel. The Japanese cruises for Mn-nodule used a similar estimation method for the DSC positioning system with a CTD sensor. Although the latter can provide better information for the position of DSC, the USBL underwater positioning system is strongly recommended for establishing better positioning of DSC and other towing devices.

• 한국해양공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양공학회 2003년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.141-148
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• 2003

This paper presents a rotating ann test for assessment of an underwater hybrid navigation system for a semi-autonomous underwater vehicle. The navigation system consists of an inertial measurement unit (IMU), an ultra-short baseline (USBL) acoustic navigation sensor and a doppler velocity log (DVL) accompanying a magnetic compass. The errors of inertial measurement units increase with time due to the bias errors of gyros and accelerometers. A navigational system model is derived to include the error model of the USBL acoustic navigation sensor and the scale effect and bias errors of the DVL, of which the state equation composed of the navigation states and sensor parameters is 25 in the order. The conventional extended Kalman filter was used to propagate the error covariance, update the measurement errors and correct the state equation when the measurements are available. The rotating ann tests are conducted in the Ocean Engineering Basin of KRISO, KORDI to generate circular motion in laboratory, where the USBL system was absent in the basin. The hybrid underwater navigation system shows good tracking performance against the circular planar motion. Additionally this paper checked the effects of the sampling ratio of the navigation system and the possibility of the dead reckoning with the DVL and the magnetic compass to estimate the position of the vehicle.

• 한국해양공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양공학회 2003년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.149-156
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• 2003

This paper presents an underwater hybrid navigation system for a semi-autonomous underwater vehicle (SAUV). The navigation system consists of an inertial measurement unit (IMU), an ultra-short baseline (USBL) acoustic navigation sensor and a doppler velocity log (DVL) accompanying a magnetic compass. The errors of inertial measurement units increase with time due to the bias errors of gyros and accelerometers. A navigational system model is derived to include the error model of the USBL acoustic navigation sensor and the scale effect and bias errors of the DVL, of which the state equation composed of the navigation states and sensor parameters is 25 in the order. The conventional extended Kalman filter was used to propagate the error covariance, update the measurement errors and correct the state equation when the measurements are available. Simulation was performed with the 6-d.o.f. equations of motion of SAUV in a lawn-mowing survey mode. The hybrid underwater navigation system shows good tracking performance by updating the error covariance and correcting the system's states with the measurement errors from a DVL, a magnetic compass and a depth senor. The error of the estimated position still slowly drifts in horizontal plane about 3.5m for 500 seconds, which could be eliminated with the help of additional USBL information.

• 지구물리와물리탐사
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.298-304
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• 2011

한국해양연구원에서는 2011년 4월에 쇄빙선 아라온호, Oceaneering사의 ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle) 및 삼성분자력계(Three component vector magnetometer)를 이용하여 남서태평양 라우분지에 위치한 TA25해산 칼데라 서측 사면에 대하여 심해자력탐사를 실시하였다. 연구지역은 약 900 m ~ 1200 m의 수심대역을 보인다. 이 심해탐사를 위하여 국내 최초로 3000 m급 심해 삼성분자력계를 제작하였다. 자력계센서부분은 ROV의 상부에, 자력계로거부분은 ROV의 하부에 장착하였으며, ROV는 ROV의 정확한 위치를 알려주는 USBL (Ultra Short Base Line)과 고도계를 이용하여 정해진 측선을 따라 해저면에서 약 25 ~ 30 m의 수직 간격을 유지하며 이동하였다. 삼성분자력계는 자기장의 X(북쪽성분), Y(동쪽성분)과 Z(수직성분)의 벡터성분을 측정하므로 모션센서를 이용하여 ROV의 움직임(피치, 롤, 요)에 대한 보정을 실시하였다. 자력센서자료와 모션센서자료는 ROV의 광케이블과 아라온호의 네트워크를 이용하여 노트북에 저장되며 ROV의 정확한 위치자료인 USBL자료는 후처리를 통하여 병합하였다. 이렇게 획득한 심해 삼성분자력자료는 조사지역의 유망한 열수광상을 유추하는데 유용하게 활용될 것으로 판단된다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.341-348
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• 2013

A location estimation algorithm based on the sea-surface beacon is proposed in this paper. The beacon is utilized to provide ultrasonic signals to the underwater vehicles around the beacon to estimate precise position of underwater vehicles (ROV, AUV, Diver robot), which is named as USBL (Ultra Short Baseline) system. It utilizes GPS and INS data for estimating its position and adopts DWT (Discrete Wavelet Transform) de-noising filter and UKF (Unscented KALMAN Filter) elaborating the position estimation. The beacon system aims at estimating the precise position of underwater vehicle by using USBL to receive the tracking signals. The most important one for the precise position estimation of underwater vehicle is estimating the position of the beacon system precisely. Since the beacon is on the sea-waves, the received GPS signals are noisy and unstable most of times. Therefore, the INS data (gyroscope sensor, accelerometer, magnetic compass) are obtained at the beacon on the sea-surface to compensate for the inaccuracy of the GPS data. The noises in the acceleration data from INS data are reduced by using DWT de-noising filter in this research. Finally the UKF localization system is proposed in this paper and the system performance is verified by real experiments.

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.46-51
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• 2010

This paper describes the implementation of a precise underwater navigation solution using a multi-sensor fusion technique based on USBL, DVL, and IMU measurements. To implement this precise underwater navigation solution, three strategies are chosen. The first involves heading alignment angle identification to enhance the performance of a standalone dead-reckoning algorithm. In the second, the absolute position is found quickly to prevent the accumulation of integration error. The third one is the introduction of an effective outlier rejection algorithm. The performance of the developed algorithm was verified with experimental data acquired by the deep-sea ROV, Hemire, in the East-sea during a survey of a methane gas seepage area at a 1,500 m depth.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.352-361
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• 2021

한국해양과학기술원에서는 수중 공사용 구조물에 적용할 수 있는 수중 위치 인식 기술을 개발하고 있다. 정밀한 위치 인식을 위해 관성 항법을 기반으로 한 확장 칼만 필터를 사용하였으며, 비동기화 된 센서들의 데이터를 알고리즘 보정 단계에 적용하기 위하여 내부의 관측 행렬을 데이터에 따라 구분하여 업데이트 하였다. 수중 공사 환경, 설치 위치, 시스템 운용 편의성 등을 종합적으로 고려하여 수중 공사 구조물 하부에 붙여야 신호를 획득할 수 있는 Doppler velocity logger(DVL)는 설치 및 회수가 어렵기 때문에 이를 배제한 수중 공사 구조물 부착용 수중 위치 인식 복합 시험체를 제작하였으며 수조 환경에서 수중 위치 인식 성능 시험을 수행하였다. Ultra short-base line(USBL)로 측정된 수중 위치, 위치 벡터만 보정된 추정 위치, 그리고 위치와 속도 벡터를 보정한 추정 위치 결과를 원형 공산 오차(CEP)를 이용하여 비교 및 평가하였다. 그 결과 USBL 단독 위치 추정 CEP 0.02 m, 위치 벡터만 보정한 추정 위치 CEP 3.76 m., 위치 및 속도 벡터를 보정한 추정 위치 CEP 0.06 m로 평가되었다. 본 연구를 통해 DVL이 미적용된 비동기식 센서들을 이용하여 안정적인 수중 위치를 추정할 수 있음을 확인하였다.