{"title":"Transmitting Internet Protocol packets efficiently on underwater networks using entropy-encoder header translation","authors":"Toby Schneider","doi":"10.1109/AUV.2016.7778678","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AUV.2016.7778678","url":null,"abstract":"The Internet Protocol (IP) is ubiquitous in terrestrial and electromagnetic-carrier wireless networking. However, for very low-throughput underwater links (such as those using acoustic modems) the IP header introduces an unacceptable amount of data overhead for the small maximum transmission units available on underwater acoustic links. Nonetheless, it is becoming increasingly valuable to connect undersea deployments to the internet to provide data to researchers on shore, and facilitate remote command of deployed vehicles and sensors. This paper details a technique to reversibly translate the IPv4 header to allow IP packets to traverse acoustic links but with a header that is an order of magnitude smaller than a regular IPv4 header. In addition, this technique provides support for translating the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) header to provide scalable multiplexing. This technique works by dynamically partitioning the address space into the required subnet size based on the number of communicating nodes, and applying a Huffman entropy encoder to the address values based on the probabilistic data flow amongst the nodes.","PeriodicalId":416057,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE/OES Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126277355","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}
T. Nakatani, T. Hyakudome, T. Sawa, Y. Nakano, Yoshitaka Watanabe, T. Fukuda, H. Matsumoto, Ryotaro Suga, H. Yoshida
{"title":"ASV MAINAMI for AUV monitoring and its sea trial","authors":"T. Nakatani, T. Hyakudome, T. Sawa, Y. Nakano, Yoshitaka Watanabe, T. Fukuda, H. Matsumoto, Ryotaro Suga, H. Yoshida","doi":"10.1109/AUV.2016.7778687","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AUV.2016.7778687","url":null,"abstract":"JAMSTEC has proposed an operation of multiple AUVs using an ASV (Autonomous Surface Vehicle) to improve survey efficiency. For this purpose, an ASV “MAINAMI” with a length of 6 meters has been developed since 2013. The vehicle is equipped with an acoustic communication device and a satellite one, in order to relay information between an AUV and operators on a ship or on land. In February 2016, its sea trials were carried out at Suruga-Bay. The performance of its solo navigation was verified through the sea trial. And, the ASV succeeded in tracking of a deep-tow as a simulated curing-type AUV.","PeriodicalId":416057,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE/OES Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV)","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122014898","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 vehicle gesture control aided by air bubble motion observation","authors":"Chih-Wei Lee, Rui Nian, Jenhwa Guo","doi":"10.1109/AUV.2016.7778697","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AUV.2016.7778697","url":null,"abstract":"This work describes the gesture control of a Biomimetic Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (BAUV) in a water flow by utilizing information derived from an onboard stereo camera, a compass, and an accelerometer. In an alternating water flow, the BAUV suffers from drag forces and consumes more energy when it advances. The relationship between air bubbles and water flow is first discussed. The air bubble is detected by the Harris corner. The relative position between air bubble and BAUV is estimated based on the calibrated stereo camera and the bubble is tracked by Lucas-Kanade method combined with the image pyramid algorithm. By integrating observation information from the motion of air bubbles, heading angles and 3-axis accelerations, the BAUV adjusts its heading angle to optimize the gesture in the water flow by gaining lift forces from the flow. Finally, the gesture control aided by the bubble motion observation in a water flow is verified by experiments. The control energy consumed by the driving motor are calculated to compare the energy used in a water flow without the gesture control.","PeriodicalId":416057,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE/OES Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128025587","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}
T. Hyakudome, T. Nakatani, H. Yoshida, Toshihiro Tani, Hideki Ito, Koki Sugihara
{"title":"Development of fuel cell system for long cruising lange Autonomous Underwater Vehicle","authors":"T. Hyakudome, T. Nakatani, H. Yoshida, Toshihiro Tani, Hideki Ito, Koki Sugihara","doi":"10.1109/AUV.2016.7778666","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AUV.2016.7778666","url":null,"abstract":"The use of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) is now widespread among the underwater observation and survey. Because AUVs are not restricted by an umbilical cable, we think that AUVs have the most suitable form to collect ocean data or work depending on subjects of survey efficiently in the same way as the sea lives with various forms. For example, form to collect ocean data while cruising in a huge range, form to collect the topography data of the seafloor and under the bottom of the sea while cruising with following seafloor, form to work such as the collection of the rock of the seafloor or the setting of the sensor on the seafloor, form to collect ocean data slowly and carefully without moving the investigation spot against the current and so on. Underwater power source is one of very important elements to operate electrically driven underwater vehicles. Because there are no energy supply places in underwater. Many research and development about the underwater power source are carried out in all over the world. When the research and development of the power source, following things need to be considered: small and light weight, put in a pressure vessel or resist against water pressure, work against low water temperature, without vibration and noise, reliability and ease of maintenance. The power source has heaviest weight with the components of the underwater vehicles. The paper reported that concepts of the body design and model experimental results show specification of fuel cell system and several experimental results.","PeriodicalId":416057,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE/OES Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132595901","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}
J. Sverdrup-Thygeson, E. Kelasidi, K. Pettersen, J. Gravdahl
{"title":"The underwater swimming manipulator - a bio-inspired AUV","authors":"J. Sverdrup-Thygeson, E. Kelasidi, K. Pettersen, J. Gravdahl","doi":"10.1109/AUV.2016.7778701","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AUV.2016.7778701","url":null,"abstract":"Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) have been used for environmental mapping and surveys of various kinds for some time. More recently, the AUVs have entered the domain of the remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) to tackle some of the lighter subsea operations, such as inspection, maintenance, and repair (IMR) and light intervention tasks. The successful transition to AUVs for inspection of subsea infrastructure has pushed the technology towards AUVs equipped with robotic arms. Some AUVs with attached manipulator arms have demonstrated autonomous light intervention, but the majority of such tasks are still carried out using tethered and expensive ROVs with support vessels. The underwater swimming manipulator (USM) presented in this paper, is a snake-like bio-inspired AUV with exceptional accessibility and flexibility, due to its slender, multi-articulated structure. In this paper, we discuss why the USM is an appropriate system for certain tasks that are normally carried out by conventional ROVs and AUVs. Furthermore, we address the topic of kinematic control of the USM to utilize the inherent redundancy. Finally, we present and make use of a newly developed and versatile simulation environment for USMs to assert the applicability of the USM for performing subsea inspections and light intervention.","PeriodicalId":416057,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE/OES Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV)","volume":"1499 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127442772","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":"High-precision underwater navigation using model-referenced pose estimation with monocular vision","authors":"Jisung Park, Jinwhan Kim","doi":"10.1109/AUV.2016.7778661","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AUV.2016.7778661","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, model-referenced pose estimation using monocular vision is applied to the navigation of an underwater vehicle in an underwater environment. The relative spatial information between the vehicle and the nearby underwater structure is obtained by employing 3D model-referenced tracking techniques. The obtained relative pose enables the underwater robot to localize around the underwater structure whose geometric model is known a priori. To demonstrate the performance of the proposed algorithm a set of experiments was carried out in a test tank and its results are shown.","PeriodicalId":416057,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE/OES Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV)","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121287036","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}
M. Kojima, A. Asada, K. Mizuno, K. Nagahashi, F. Katase, Yuta Saito, T. Ura
{"title":"AUV IRSAS for submarine hydrothermal deposits exploration","authors":"M. Kojima, A. Asada, K. Mizuno, K. Nagahashi, F. Katase, Yuta Saito, T. Ura","doi":"10.1109/AUV.2016.7778665","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AUV.2016.7778665","url":null,"abstract":"Small AUV “IK-A” equipped with IRSAS was developed for submarine hydrothermal deposits exploration. Observed IRSAS data could acquire the back scatter image and bathymetry. One of the features of the seafloor hydrothermal deposits is the chimney and the mound-like terrain. Back scatter image can distinguish these terrain and other terrains. IRSAS has increased much measurable terrain by switching the pointing angle and real/synthetic aperture. On the other hand, perturbations of small IK-A, it was detected that affects the synthetic aperture processing. At the moment, there is a need to solve the problems of the following two points. Improving motion correction for synthetic aperture processing. Determination of the switching criteria of the narrow beam transmitter or wide beam transmitter.","PeriodicalId":416057,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE/OES Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126024141","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":"Development of AUV (MI) for strong ocean current and zero-visibility condition","authors":"Juhyun Pyo, Son-cheol Yu","doi":"10.1109/AUV.2016.7778720","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AUV.2016.7778720","url":null,"abstract":"The typical autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are widely used in underwater exploration. However, there are difficulties to use AUVs in constrained environments such as the strong current or poor visibility. In this paper, we proposed the novel design and operation strategy of AUV that can overcome these restricted condition. The proposed AUV is composed by upper and lower body with specific technologies. Two bodies have different shape and role. The lower body is firmly fixed on the seafloor, and guides the upper body connected by tether to the target. The upper body is in close proximity to the target to obtain the optical information. In this process, it is important that such buoyancy control, winch control and sensor fusion.","PeriodicalId":416057,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE/OES Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV)","volume":"191 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114856896","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":"Real-time anomaly detection in side-scan sonar imagery for adaptive AUV missions","authors":"J. Kaeli","doi":"10.1109/AUV.2016.7778653","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AUV.2016.7778653","url":null,"abstract":"Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) operations are inherently bandwidth limited but increasingly data intensive. This leads to large latencies between the capture of image data and the time at which operators are able to make informed decisions using the results of a survey. As AUV endurance and reliability continue to improve, there is a greater need for real-time data processing to inform on-board adaptive mission planning. In this paper, we present an anomaly detection framework based on saliency and rarity and demonstrate it using existing side-scan sonar datasets collected by an AUV. Salient regions are first identified using a novel method with analogies to keypoint detection in traditional image processing. Models of these regions are then learned to determine rarity using an online approach for real-time use during a mission. The algorithm we present will be implemented in field trials later this year. This approach to adaptive mission planning enables an AUV to both resurvey anomalies at higher resolutions and selectively transmit imagery for operator analysis and feedback within the scope of a single deployment.","PeriodicalId":416057,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE/OES Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129619662","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 marking AUV using paraffin wax","authors":"Seokyong Song, Son-cheol Yu","doi":"10.1109/AUV.2016.7778716","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AUV.2016.7778716","url":null,"abstract":"It is still hard mission for human divers or robotic systems to investigate complex underwater environments, composed of several turning points and rooms. This paper explains a design of the Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) for marking physical and visible path logs in water. Then, it will make the repeated exploration easier. For the solution of underwater marking, we chose to use paraffin wax which can be melted easily in the heated body of machine and also be hardened easily in water. This vehicle has a container for storing the bulk of paraffin wax filament, nozzle part for ejecting the filament, and cameras for detecting filament mark. The marking method is similar with Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) method of 3D printers. Nozzle motors extrude filament into nozzle, heating core melts it, and it comes out from the nozzle in water. As well as leaving a path mark, this AUV finds interesting places with real-time topic modeling algorithm and draws a circle-shaped mark, can be detected the next time on the point.","PeriodicalId":416057,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE/OES Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV)","volume":"116 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128928335","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}