{"title":"Synthetic lines for marine and other applications: Rope design, selection and best practice","authors":"R. Chou, Kris Volpenhein, Greg Mozsgai","doi":"10.1109/OCEANSAP.2016.7485356","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANSAP.2016.7485356","url":null,"abstract":"In order to properly design and select a rope, one needs to understand the key limitations and factors for a specific application. Some of these factors, such as cost, rope strength, elastic elongation, size, and weight, are universal rope parameters. Some other factors are more application-specific such as tensile fatigue, bending fatigue, abrasion resistance, spooling, surface characteristics and stiffness. These factors are all functions of material selection, rope construction, and product fabrication. In addition to proper design and selection of the rope, past field experiences also showed the importance of best practice to extend the service life of the synthetic lines. Through both looking into individual cases and viewing the collective picture as a whole, we identified critical factors in rope design and selection for safe operation. Specific topics for in-depth discussion of some case studies also include assignable causes for cases with poor performance, jacketed vs. non-jacketed rope, material consideration, residual strength of used ropes, selection of accessories, and hardware options with best practice recommendation.","PeriodicalId":382688,"journal":{"name":"OCEANS 2016 - Shanghai","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125393413","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":"Fast gap filling of the coastal ocean surface current in the seas around Taiwan","authors":"E. Fredj, H. Roarty, J. Kohut, Jian-Wu Lai","doi":"10.1109/OCEANSAP.2016.7485427","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANSAP.2016.7485427","url":null,"abstract":"A fast, recently developed, Least Square regression method based on Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT-PLS) algorithm has been adapted to the mapping of hourly High Frequency Radar (HFR) data in the seas surrounding Taiwan. HFR is a shore based remote sensing system, and can be subject to unexpected observation failure. This algorithm produces both solution and error estimates of oceanographic data. The method explicitly uses both space and time information to predict missing values. In contrast to previous methods, our approach uses all HFR measurements to provide estimation error statistics while permitting long-range correlations, while allowing arbitrary HFR measurement locations. The approach is demonstrated by reconstructing the Hourly HFR data with a spatial resolution of 9km in the Taiwanese seas. We validated the method during the summer 2015 against typical gap scenarios. A major advantage of the approach is the ability to perform fast and robust computation while requiring a small amount of memory storage, showing the feasibility of a real-time application for filling HFR missing data.","PeriodicalId":382688,"journal":{"name":"OCEANS 2016 - Shanghai","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126623540","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":"Research on the fault diagnosis methods for UUV utilize multi-sensor information fusion technology","authors":"Yang Yu, Tianyi Wang, Shangzhuo Zhang","doi":"10.1109/OCEANSAP.2016.7485633","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANSAP.2016.7485633","url":null,"abstract":"For UUV fault detection, we propose a multi-sensor information fusion diagnosis method based on D-S evidence theory. We use the feature information which is extracted by fuzzy membership function to construct the basic probability functions. Then use the weighted distribution method for basic probability functions to avoid the evidence conflict. Finally we use the combining method which was proposed by Murphy to combine the weighted probability functions and give out the fault diagnosis. In the final paper, we will give the performance evaluation by using the measured data.","PeriodicalId":382688,"journal":{"name":"OCEANS 2016 - Shanghai","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126507383","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":"Underwater image feature extraction and matching based on visual saliency detection","authors":"Lunjuan Zhang, B. He, Yan Song, T. Yan","doi":"10.1109/OCEANSAP.2016.7485370","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANSAP.2016.7485370","url":null,"abstract":"Computer vision has become the tool of two-dimensional image recognition and analysis, which mainly means extracting image features. But the problem of robustness and real-time property in complex scenarios makes feature extraction become a challenging task. Visual attention is an important psychological adjustment mechanism in the process of human visual information management, under the guidance of visual attention, human can quickly select the most important, useful and relevant to the current behavior interested visual information from a number of visual information. This paper applies the visual detection to underwater image feature extraction to work out the robustness problem, which is conducive to a more stable and closer to human cognitive mechanism feature extraction algorithm. In addition, in the process of underwater images pretreatment, we apply dark channel prior to the underwater images preprocessing process to remove haze and enhance the contrast of underwater images. The results also show that the robustness and the property of real-time of feature extraction based on visual saliency detection and dark color image defogging algorithm has been greatly improved.","PeriodicalId":382688,"journal":{"name":"OCEANS 2016 - Shanghai","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121609590","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}
L. Yuxin, W. Haifeng, Chen Libo, Wang Ji, Tang Jiuting
{"title":"A study of the prerequisite for China's marine energy industrialization","authors":"L. Yuxin, W. Haifeng, Chen Libo, Wang Ji, Tang Jiuting","doi":"10.1109/OCEANSAP.2016.7485735","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANSAP.2016.7485735","url":null,"abstract":"With long industry chain and high-tech, the marine energy industry covers various professional areas, it is a strategic emerging industry. The industry chain of marine energy is composed of upstream, midstream and downstream. By reviewing the literature, defining concepts and sorting the basic theories, this paper made a qualitative analysis of the advantages in developing China's marine energy, and looked into the main problems in the development of marine energy industry, it then raised suggestions to promote the marine energy industry.","PeriodicalId":382688,"journal":{"name":"OCEANS 2016 - Shanghai","volume":"235 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123022229","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}
Lei Yang, Junjun Cao, Junliang Cao, Baoheng Yao, Zheng Zeng, L. Lian
{"title":"Hydrodynamic and vertical motion analysis of an underwater glider","authors":"Lei Yang, Junjun Cao, Junliang Cao, Baoheng Yao, Zheng Zeng, L. Lian","doi":"10.1109/OCEANSAP.2016.7485413","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANSAP.2016.7485413","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a towing tank-based experiment study on hydrodynamic coefficients on the underwater glider - Seagull. The present measurements were carried out at typical speeds of glider (0.2-0.5m/s) with varying angle of attack and slide. The measurements were used to study variation of drag, lift and pitching moment coefficients and angle of attack. The measurements have also been used to validate results obtained from CFD software. In addition, the Hess-Smith method was applied for added mass calculation. These results provide a better basis of designing guidance and control system of the Seagull glider.","PeriodicalId":382688,"journal":{"name":"OCEANS 2016 - Shanghai","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121129287","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 of robust matched-field processing with convex optimization","authors":"Kai Zhang, Wen Xu","doi":"10.1109/OCEANSAP.2016.7485628","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANSAP.2016.7485628","url":null,"abstract":"Matched-field processing (MFP) is an underwater acoustic signal processing method for passive source localization. It works by matching the measured field with the full-field solution for sound wave propagation in an oceanic waveguide. The popular Minimum Variance Distortionless Response (MV-DR) algorithm is known to be highly sensitive to environmental mismatch, which is one of the main obstacles to the application of MFP in the real ocean. A robust version of MVDR using convex optimization was first proposed in plane wave beamforming to solve the signal mismatch problem and then generalized to the environmental mismatch case in MFP. In this paper, we further investigate this robust MFP algorithm by carrying out numerical implementations in a shallow-water oceanic environment. The results show that this method attains a certain degree of robustness under circumstances of modest mismatch while maintaining the sidelobe suppression capability. Moreover, the robustness level grows when a relatively larger uncertainty factor is chosen in the algorithm while incurring a higher risk of solution non-existence to the convex problem. However, the robust MFP fails in the case of severe environmental mismatch when the peak in the signal ambiguity plane deviates far from the actual source location. The less effectiveness is found to be attributed to selection of the candidate set of steering vectors, which shall be improved in future efforts.","PeriodicalId":382688,"journal":{"name":"OCEANS 2016 - Shanghai","volume":"174 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125120168","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}
Wei Zhang, Xiufang Wang, Zhicheng Liang, Xixun Sun
{"title":"Study of obstacle information processing for unmanned underwater vehicle in unknown ocean environment","authors":"Wei Zhang, Xiufang Wang, Zhicheng Liang, Xixun Sun","doi":"10.1109/OCEANSAP.2016.7485720","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANSAP.2016.7485720","url":null,"abstract":"In ocean environment, to ensure the safety of navigation for unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV), it is the most important to obtain the position information and moving information of obstacles. In order to distinguish between static and dynamic obstacles, the detection of moving property is used to detect property of obstacles. Then, to meet the requirement of obstacle configurations, k-means clustering algorithm is put forward for clustering. Finally, least squares prediction is put forward for detecting position information of UUV, this method predicts the future position information of obstacles and the moving parameter, and solves the problem of lack of useful information for UUV. Simulations show that the proposed method could get the accurate position information and moving information of obstacles.","PeriodicalId":382688,"journal":{"name":"OCEANS 2016 - Shanghai","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122618145","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":"Research on mooring system under typhoon state","authors":"Wei Li, Renchao Ji, Ting Huang","doi":"10.1109/OCEANSAP.2016.7485693","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANSAP.2016.7485693","url":null,"abstract":"Quay mooring status of a ship has been studied by using the mooring analysis software AQWA. The anti-typhoon mooring computation under the combined wind wave and current loads was analyzed with a time domain computation method. The influence of the mooring line material and mooring layout has also been studied on mooring system tensions. According to the research, the mooring layout plan that complies with the safety requirements under typhoon condition has been provided. The conclusions in the paper may provide reference to the engineering practice.","PeriodicalId":382688,"journal":{"name":"OCEANS 2016 - Shanghai","volume":"207 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131488603","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}
Yan Zhe-ping, Liu Yibo, Z. Jiajia, Hao Bing, Liu Xiangling
{"title":"Coordinate control of multi-AUVs under double independent topologies and time delay","authors":"Yan Zhe-ping, Liu Yibo, Z. Jiajia, Hao Bing, Liu Xiangling","doi":"10.1109/OCEANSAP.2016.7485351","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANSAP.2016.7485351","url":null,"abstract":"This paper introduces a new method which uses the consensus algorithm to solve the coordinate control problems of multi-AUVs. As the communication between the AUVs is difficult and easy to be interfered under the water, there must be time delay and data drop during the members communicate with each other. On the other hand, the math model of AUV is nonlinear and coupling, the feedback linearization can be used to make the complex model of AUV into double-integrator dynamic. With this simplified math model, the AUV formation coordinate control can be regarded as consensus problem. In addition, the double independent position and velocity topologies are used to responded to the shortage of bandwidth in real communication under the water.","PeriodicalId":382688,"journal":{"name":"OCEANS 2016 - Shanghai","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121772769","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}