{"title":"Numerical investigation on the flow past three cylinders in staggered symmetrical arrangement","authors":"Xiao-Qiu He, Y. Xiong, Dan Yang","doi":"10.1109/USYS.2018.8779051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/USYS.2018.8779051","url":null,"abstract":"The multiple structures interacting with fluid flowing past are ubiquitous in engineering circumstances. By modeling the structures to cylinders, the force coefficients of the cylinders are significant references for the designs of the structures. However, the study on the flow past a group of three cylinders are relatively scarce. This study is devoted to reveal the arrangement’s impact on the flow with the help of numerical simulation. It is found that three cylinders behave as one cylinder in vortex shedding when they clustered enough close. Besides, the streamwise intervals among cylinders has a considerable effect on the amplitude and frequencies of the force coefficients.","PeriodicalId":299885,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 8th International Conference on Underwater System Technology: Theory and Applications (USYS)","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133626497","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":"Performance evaluation of acoustic network for underwater autonomous vehicle in confined spaces","authors":"Siyuan Zheng, Xiuling Cao, Feng Tong, Gangqiang Zhang, Yangze Dong","doi":"10.1109/USYS.2018.8778974","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/USYS.2018.8778974","url":null,"abstract":"As a kind of small size mobile platform, autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV) are playing more and more important role in different marine fields such as underwater monitoring and construction. While acoustic communication offer an effective communication link for AUV, under the confined spaces in which small AUVs usually work, the structured obstacles and closure or semi-closure barriers pose serious challenges to communication link due to acoustic sheltering and significant reverberation. The underwater acoustic network is capable of improving acoustic connectivity of AUV via the distributed communication link of different nodes. In this paper, an acoustic network is designed and evaluated for communication support of AUV in a small lake with dense piers. While the presence of piers lead to obvious performance degradation of point-to-point acoustic communication, the experimental results verified the effectiveness of acoustic network for improving connectivity of AUV in confined space.","PeriodicalId":299885,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 8th International Conference on Underwater System Technology: Theory and Applications (USYS)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125278847","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":"Analysis of Effective Sound Velocity Spatial Characteristic of Typical MUNK Deep Sea Channel","authors":"Jin-jin Wang, Tao Lin, Jin Fu","doi":"10.1109/USYS.2018.8778987","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/USYS.2018.8778987","url":null,"abstract":"An accurate estimate algorithm of effective sound velocity in deep sea channel based on the earliest arrival criteria is proposed. For a given sound speed profile of the sea and the characteristic of surface and seabed, the method acquires effective sound velocity between any two points in the channel and the physical image of their distribution. Furthermore, the spatial distribution characteristics and reasons of the effective sound velocity of deep sea sound channels under the location of different sound sources are discussed. The spatial distribution of effective sound velocity in deep water channel is of great significance to the underwater acoustic ranging and positioning.","PeriodicalId":299885,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 8th International Conference on Underwater System Technology: Theory and Applications (USYS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129717145","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":"Influence of FE modeling on ultimate strength of Y-shape stiffened panels under axial compression","authors":"M. Xu, Meng Jia Ren, B. Zhang, J. Pan","doi":"10.1109/USYS.2018.8779029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/USYS.2018.8779029","url":null,"abstract":"A series of FE analyses are conducted to investigate the influence of boundary conditions and model range on the ultimate strength and bulking behavior with Non-linear FE (finite element) method. Models that have same section size and include different number of stiffeners are used in research about influence of extent of model and choosing a portable extent of model. Another set of models with same section size and extent are applied different boundary conditions including simply supported boundary, clamped supported boundary condition and periodical boundary condition. The effects of the continuity of the stiffened panel with different geometric models and boundary conditions on its collapse mode are investigated.","PeriodicalId":299885,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 8th International Conference on Underwater System Technology: Theory and Applications (USYS)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129782054","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":"Multi-AUV SOM Task Allocation Considering Initial Orientation of AUV","authors":"Yun Qu, Daqi Zhu, Mingzhi Chen","doi":"10.1109/USYS.2018.8778982","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/USYS.2018.8778982","url":null,"abstract":"Considering that the Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) have different initial azimuths in two-dimensional plane, an improved self-organizing map model is put forward. Each AUV in the model is accessed. The AUV, which has the shortest path under kinematic constraints and different azimuths, is selected for task assignment. First, the initial orientation and initial position of each AUV are determined. Then, the method considers the different azimuths of AUV in the actual situation and selects the AUV which is the shortest route to the destination for task assignment. Finally, so as to certify the usefulness of the suggested algorithm, this paper gives simulation results.","PeriodicalId":299885,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 8th International Conference on Underwater System Technology: Theory and Applications (USYS)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125122540","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":"Platoon Formation Control of USVs With Output Tracking Error Constraints","authors":"Qingzhao Ye, Shude He, Shi‐Lu Dai","doi":"10.1109/USYS.2018.8778951","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/USYS.2018.8778951","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we investigate the platoon formation control problem for a group of unmanned surface vehicles exposed to external time-varying disturbances with output tracking error constraints, where the topology of the communication network is described by a spanning directed tree. To guarantee that the follower could preserve within the communication range between the follower and its predecessor while avoiding the collision with its predecessor, the line-of-sight (LOS) range is required to be constrained. By introducing a desired distance, the constraints on connectivity preserving and collision avoidance could be transformed into the constraints of LOS range error, i.e., the LOS range error is required to stay within a prescribed region composed of two constant bounds. To quantify the transient and steady-state performances of the orientation error and LOS range error, the tan-type barrier Lyapunov functions with exponential decaying boundary functions are employed to guarantee the satisfaction of the prescribed tracking error constraints. Since the vehicle system is exposed to the time-varying disturbances, the disturbance observers are incorporated into the controller such that the robustness of the control system is improved. Based on backstepping procedure, barrier Lyapunov functions, and disturbance observers, robust formation controller is proposed to ensure the prescribed tracking error constraints, i.e., the connectivity preserving as well as the collision avoidance constraints between the follower and its predecessor are also satisfied. Simulation results demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed control scheme.","PeriodicalId":299885,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 8th International Conference on Underwater System Technology: Theory and Applications (USYS)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126761717","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":"Vision-Based Dynamic Positioning System Design and Experiment for an Underwater Vehicle","authors":"Chen Li, Jian Gao, Puguo Wu, Lei Feng","doi":"10.1109/USYS.2018.8779234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/USYS.2018.8779234","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a vision-based control system is developed for a remotely operated underwater vehicles. We utilized four underwater lights as the visual markers to control the depth, horizontal, position and yaw of the underwater vehicle. The system design and control algorithms are described in details. This proposed visual control system is tested by pool experiments, in which the underwater vehicle succeeds in keeping position, depth and yaw using the PID control algorithms.","PeriodicalId":299885,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 8th International Conference on Underwater System Technology: Theory and Applications (USYS)","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126529755","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}
Zheping Yan, Jiyun Li, J. Zou, Juan Li, Rong Zhong
{"title":"A hybrid PSO-WG algorithm for AUV path planning in unknown oceanic environment","authors":"Zheping Yan, Jiyun Li, J. Zou, Juan Li, Rong Zhong","doi":"10.1109/USYS.2018.8779121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/USYS.2018.8779121","url":null,"abstract":"A new path planning algorithm is presented for autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) in undiscovered ocean environments based on combining particle swarm optimization (PSO) with waypoint guidance (WG). In this algorithm, multi-beams forward looking sonar (FLS) is utilized to discover obstacles, and PSO algorithm is adopted to generate appropriate waypoints, an optimal path with low power consumption and free of collision is generated by following these waypoints. Finally, the simulation experiment is conducted in MATLAB 2015, the simulation results show that this algorithm can generate optimal paths with shorter path length and better smoothness.","PeriodicalId":299885,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 8th International Conference on Underwater System Technology: Theory and Applications (USYS)","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127570600","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":"Hydro-resistance and Running Stability Investigation for Twin Floats Seaplane","authors":"Miao Huang, Yongsheng Liu, Bin Wu, Xinying Li","doi":"10.1109/USYS.2018.8779210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/USYS.2018.8779210","url":null,"abstract":"Twin floats seaplane requires good resistance and planning stability performance for safe operations in rough water. The hydro-resistance and running stability of floats varies significantly depending on their float hull forms, the coupling influence of aerodynamic and hydrodynamic. Four float hulls that have almost the same displacement and principal dimension are designed and the hydrodynamic characteristics including water resistance and stability limits of those hulls are estimated by high-speed model tests, in which only single float model is used and aero-lift and moment are simulated, this model test method is sufficient to gain characteristics and stability limits and convenient to conduct especially during the float design process. As to the CFD computation of planning problem, a kind of method which is divided into two phase is brought out, in the first phase water viscidity is ignored so we get a relatively exact computation results of trim and heave, this results are treat as the initial status for the second phase so mesh grid distortion or stretch could be avoided, result in computation efficiency and accuracy increase. As compared to the test results, the error of hydro-resistance and trim are within 20% and 15% respectively.","PeriodicalId":299885,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 8th International Conference on Underwater System Technology: Theory and Applications (USYS)","volume":"os-42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130411414","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":"Explanation for Fluid Effect on Flexural Vibration of a Finite Submerged Cylindrical Shell with Modal Added Mass","authors":"Peng Wang, Tianyun Li, Xiang Zhu","doi":"10.1109/USYS.2018.8779198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/USYS.2018.8779198","url":null,"abstract":"By assuming the fluid to be ideal acoustic media, the sound-structure interaction model is built for a finite submerged cylindrical shell. Modal added mass is proposed by combining added mass theory and modal shape of structure, and it’s successfully applied to explain the influence mechanism of acoustic media on structural vibration. Modal added masses for a submerged cylindrical shell are general positive for every mode, this will finally lead to the reductions of coupled modal frequencies. Modal added mass is closely related to mode shape of stricture, and it generally reduces when the structural mode order becomes bigger. This work provides new idea to explain the influence of acoustic media on dynamic characteristics of submerged structures.","PeriodicalId":299885,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE 8th International Conference on Underwater System Technology: Theory and Applications (USYS)","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117236246","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}