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@inproceedings{munafo2014,
title = {Enhancing AUV localization using underwater acoustic sensor networks: Results
in long baseline navigation from the COLLAB13 sea trial},
booktitle = {2014 Oceans - St. John's},
author = {Andrea Munafò and Jan Sliwka and Gabriele Ferri and Arjan Vermeij and Ryan
Goldhahn and Kevin LePage and Joao Alves and John Potter},
pages = {1-7},
month = {September},
year = {2014},
keywords = {autonomous underwater vehicles;telecommunication
services;transponders;underwater acoustic communication;wireless sensor
networks;AUV localization enhancement;COLLAB13 sea trial;LBL;acoustic
messages;acoustic reception;acoustic transmission;interrogation
scheme;localisation services;long baseline navigation;network level;networked
acoustic communication;timing information;transponders;underwater acoustic
sensor networks;Acoustic measurements;Acoustics;Clocks;Modems;Navigation;Sea
measurements;Vehicles},
abstract = {This work proposes a novel approach to enhance Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
(AUVs) navigation through the addition of localisation services to networked
acoustic communication. The approach is based on the inclusion of timing
information within acoustic messages through which it is possible to know the
exact time of an acoustic transmission in relation to its reception. The
exploitation of such information at the network level makes it possible to
create an interrogation scheme similar to that of a long-baseline (LBL). The
advantage is that the AUVs themselves become the transponders of the baseline,
and hence there is no need for dedicated instrumentation. Results are given
from the COLLAB13 experimental campaign, where a three node network was
deployed off the coast of La Spezia, Italy.}}
