{"title":"Underwater acoustic channel model for shallow waters","authors":"B. menna, G. Acosta, S. Villar","doi":"10.1109/SAISOE.2016.7922471","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SAISOE.2016.7922471","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the development of a model for shallow waters acoustic channel. Starting from the study of the basic phenomena involved in the propagation of acoustic waves and doing some simplifications, it was implemented a model that allows to obtain important parameters for the future development of acoustic communication systems to be employed in underwater acoustic sensor networks.","PeriodicalId":154805,"journal":{"name":"2016 3rd IEEE/OES South American International Symposium on Oceanic Engineering (SAISOE)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133232575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Luis Bertani, Carlos V. M. Labriola, Ariel Marchegiani, Orlando Audisio
{"title":"Tidal power stations by artificial \"Albúferas\" in Argentina","authors":"Luis Bertani, Carlos V. M. Labriola, Ariel Marchegiani, Orlando Audisio","doi":"10.1109/SAISOE.2016.7922478","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SAISOE.2016.7922478","url":null,"abstract":"This work considers the possibility of using the absolute depressions “Bajo del Gualicho” (- 72 m) and “Bajo de San Julián” (-107m), Río Negro and Santa Cruz Provinces respectively, for tidal electrical generation by means of a connection with the Atlantic Sea in Argentinean Patagonia Region [1]. This would allow the formation of large lakes that would create an \"artificial albúfera\" which will cover an area of about 1234 km2 in Gualicho and 650km2 in San Julián. These lakes will be exposed to tidal by means of an array with combination of a channels and four tunnels/chan. Gualicho and Only Tunnels in San Julián, which will be located between the sea and the lake. Taking the reference of Puerto San Antonio Este for Gualicho, the average tidal range reaches 6.73m [2], lasting 6 hs. 20 min. . In the case of San Julián, the tidal reaches 7,45m and lasting 6hours and 45minutes. This project is made by means of a multidisciplinary research group of UNCo, with advice of Hydraulic Laboratory of University of La Plata and Renewable Energy Group of Academic Unit of Caleta Olivia [3], UNPA.","PeriodicalId":154805,"journal":{"name":"2016 3rd IEEE/OES South American International Symposium on Oceanic Engineering (SAISOE)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133932336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"3rd IEEE/OES South American International symposium on oceanic engineering","authors":"G. Acosta","doi":"10.1109/SAISOE.2016.7922470","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SAISOE.2016.7922470","url":null,"abstract":"This proceedings includes eight selected papers presented in the third edition of the South American International Symposium on Oceanic Engineering (3rd IEEE/OES SAISOE), held in Buenos Aires from 15 to 17 of June, 2016. It was organized by the Argentinean Chapter of the Oceanic Engineering Society of the IEEE, under the sponsorship of IEEE OES and CONICET (the National Scientific and Technological Research Council of Argentina).","PeriodicalId":154805,"journal":{"name":"2016 3rd IEEE/OES South American International Symposium on Oceanic Engineering (SAISOE)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127925431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Technological evaluation of a fresh water bathymetry system","authors":"S. Abbate, J. Areta","doi":"10.1109/SAISOE.2016.7922473","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SAISOE.2016.7922473","url":null,"abstract":"We present the progress made in the development of an instrumentation system for fresh water bathymetry. Several design considerations are analyzed, such as transducer element characterization, SONAR equation modelling, and conceptual design of the instrumentation electronics. A Class-D, “Half-Bridge” configuration is proposed to drive the transducer used for transmission and reception. General system modules are also introduced. Future work involves the construction of a prototype based on this design to evaluate its performance.","PeriodicalId":154805,"journal":{"name":"2016 3rd IEEE/OES South American International Symposium on Oceanic Engineering (SAISOE)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129274085","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Pepe\": a novel low cost drifting video system for underwater survey","authors":"G. Trobbiani, A. Irigoyen","doi":"10.1109/SAISOE.2016.7922472","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SAISOE.2016.7922472","url":null,"abstract":"Worldwide, the utilization of underwater video technologies has increased exponentially over the last decades for scientific and commercial purposes. The high quality and diversity coupled with the cost reduction of equipment’s facilitated its utilization among scientists. Remote Operated Vehicles (ROVs) and Drift Cameras (DC) are the most used remote operated vehicles. In Argentina, despite cost reductions the use of remote operated vehicles is still scarce. On this work, a DC equipped with a novel system to measure objects is presented, together with data acquisition protocols and processing and a precision & accuracy test. The DC was built at low cost and operated satisfactorily from small boats up to 82 m deep in a wide range of visibility conditions. It was possible to identify and measure animals up to 2 cm of total length with an accuracy of 8%, estimate their abundances accurately and geolocalize any object or animal captured on video imagery with an error of 5 +- 2,16 m.","PeriodicalId":154805,"journal":{"name":"2016 3rd IEEE/OES South American International Symposium on Oceanic Engineering (SAISOE)","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127079671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Petit, C. Paulo, Ignacio Carlucho, B. menna, M. D. Paula
{"title":"Prediction of the hydrodynamic coefficients of an autonomous underwater vehicle","authors":"A. Petit, C. Paulo, Ignacio Carlucho, B. menna, M. D. Paula","doi":"10.1109/SAISOE.2016.7922474","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SAISOE.2016.7922474","url":null,"abstract":"Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV) are attractive platforms for many applications in the off-shore industry. The design and development of an AUV is an expensive and complex task. During the development of these vehicles both at the stage of physical design for construction, as in the stage of the navigation system design, it is critical to estimate and analyze the dynamic behavior of these vehicles in order to reduce design changes over the prototype, which it entails time and cost overruns. This work aims to determine the mathematical model of the AUV-ICTIOBOT, which is an underwater vehicle developed by the research group INTELYMEC of Engineering Faculty of the UNCPBA of Argentina. To propose an AUV model we use computational modeling using Computer-Aided Design (CAD) and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). The obtained model constitutes the foundational bases to adjust the physical design and to design the navigation and control module of the ICTIOBOT, and also to analyze the performance of the vehicle in the ocean depths.","PeriodicalId":154805,"journal":{"name":"2016 3rd IEEE/OES South American International Symposium on Oceanic Engineering (SAISOE)","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127001500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Solari Franco J., Rozenfeld Alejandro F., Villar A. Sebastián, Acosta Gerardo G.
{"title":"Artificial potential fields for the obstacles avoidance system of an AUV using a mechanical scanning sonar","authors":"Solari Franco J., Rozenfeld Alejandro F., Villar A. Sebastián, Acosta Gerardo G.","doi":"10.1109/SAISOE.2016.7922477","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SAISOE.2016.7922477","url":null,"abstract":"Obstacle avoidance is one of the most relevant problems in mobile robotics field. The solution of this problem allows successful trajectory generation, detecting and avoiding those regions where a path is unable due to the presence of obstacles. The purpose of this paper is the application of the potential fields method for obstacles avoidance using a mechanical scanning sonar device for an autonomous underwater vehicle. Particular sonar’s features are used to instantiate the proposed method. Different tests in simulated environment provided preliminary results that have proved its feasibility for the future implementation of this method in real environments, within the obstacle avoidance system of an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV).","PeriodicalId":154805,"journal":{"name":"2016 3rd IEEE/OES South American International Symposium on Oceanic Engineering (SAISOE)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116499347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Murano, Martín Colombo, J. Aparicio, A. Jiménez, C. Marziani, M. C. Pérez, J. Gallardo, R. Alcoleas
{"title":"Using multilevel complementary sets of sequences for acoustic signals emission in underwater links","authors":"S. Murano, Martín Colombo, J. Aparicio, A. Jiménez, C. Marziani, M. C. Pérez, J. Gallardo, R. Alcoleas","doi":"10.1109/SAISOE.2016.7922476","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SAISOE.2016.7922476","url":null,"abstract":"Complementary Set of Sequences (CSS) are being widely used in communications due to the ideal correlation properties and the availability of efficient correlators that significantly reduce the number of computations in the detection process. In this paper, the performance of the acoustic signals encoded by multilevel CSS in an underwater horizontal link is analysed. For that, a channel propagation model based on ray tracing is used, where parameters for the San Jorge Gulf Argentina are included. The main goal of this is to analyse the transmission scheme based on acoustic encoded signals, in order to be used in a communication system, between a buoy in a surface and a group of sensors on the seabed, that form a sensor network for coastal monitoring. Other application of this scheme can be a positioning system, where a set of sensors of the network are deployed on the seabed in order to compute its position. The obtained results show a suitable robustness of the used encoding scheme based on Multilevel Complementary Sets of Sequences in a point-to-point link in shallow water, where it is possible to detect encoded signals even under hard conditions of attenuation and SNR.","PeriodicalId":154805,"journal":{"name":"2016 3rd IEEE/OES South American International Symposium on Oceanic Engineering (SAISOE)","volume":"94 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115968654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ignacio Carlucho, B. menna, M. D. Paula, G. Acosta
{"title":"Comparison of a PID controller versus a LQG controller for an autonomous underwater vehicle","authors":"Ignacio Carlucho, B. menna, M. D. Paula, G. Acosta","doi":"10.1109/SAISOE.2016.7922475","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SAISOE.2016.7922475","url":null,"abstract":"Currently autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are facing an increase in their applications in the offshore industry, allowing maximum utilization of the maritime resources. Therefore, the development of autonomous control systems is imperious, for fast decision making in unknown situations or environments. In order to achieve this, is necessary to solve the control and navigation problem efficiently. In this article two control techniques, previously used in AUVs, are compared, in order to apply one of them in the submarine ICTIOBOT, a development platform designed by the research group INTELYMEC of the Faculty of Engineering of the UNICEN. Firstly two controllers are designed, a PID with a Kalman filter for state estimation, and a LQG controller. An evaluation of the performance is done in simulation, with regards to different operation conditions. The results show that the LQG strategy has a better performance that the PID although the latter is computationally more tractable.","PeriodicalId":154805,"journal":{"name":"2016 3rd IEEE/OES South American International Symposium on Oceanic Engineering (SAISOE)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128470433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}