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  • Oceanography
  • Acoustics
  • Robotics

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  • Multistatic sonar networks (MSNs) offer advanced underwater surveillance by using spatially distributed sources and receivers, unlike traditional monostatic systems.
  • Optimizing the path of mobile sonar sources is crucial for maximizing the effectiveness of MSNs in underwater environments.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To determine the optimal route for a mobile multistatic active sonar source to maximize area coverage.
  • To develop and evaluate computational methods for solving the mobile source routing problem in MSNs.

Main Methods:

  • A Mixed Integer Linear Program (MILP) formulation was developed to find optimal single-source routes within a hexagonal grid.
  • An Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) heuristic was proposed as an efficient method for solving large-scale MSN routing problems.

Main Results:

  • The study presents a novel MILP formulation for optimal source routing in MSNs.
  • The proposed ACO heuristic demonstrates efficiency in solving complex routing instances.
  • Numerical experiments validate the performance of both MILP and ACO methods.

Conclusions:

  • The developed MILP and ACO approaches provide effective solutions for optimizing mobile source routes in multistatic sonar networks.
  • These methods enhance underwater surveillance capabilities by maximizing area coverage.
  • The research contributes to the advancement of autonomous underwater systems and surveillance technologies.