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Data-based depth estimation of an incoming autonomous underwater vehicle
1College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China tsihyang@gmail.com, wxu@zju.edu.cn.
Abstract:
The data-based method for estimating the depth of a moving source is demonstrated experimentally for an incoming autonomous underwater vehicle traveling toward a vertical line array (VLA) of receivers at constant speed/depth. The method assumes no information on the sound-speed and bottom profile. Performing a wavenumber analysis of a narrowband signal for each hydrophone, the energy of the (modal) spectral peaks as a function of the receiver depth is used to estimate the depth of the source, traveling within the depth span of the VLA. This paper reviews the theory, discusses practical implementation issues, and presents the data analysis results.
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