A Simple and Novel Localization Method Using the Radiated Ultra-Low-Frequency Electromagnetic Wave Signals from the Surface Vehicle and Submerged Ones

Because the surface and submerged vehicles radiate Ultra-Low-Frequency (ULF) Electromagnetic waves, the status of the vehicles in the ocean can be detected and explored by analyzing such signals, and this has been gained increasing attention. In this paper, a hybrid algorithm of the ant colony algor...

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Main Authors: Ke Yang, Dongsheng Li, Hao Li, Kai Ding, Bin Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-03-01
Series:Electronics
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/10/7/784
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Summary:Because the surface and submerged vehicles radiate Ultra-Low-Frequency (ULF) Electromagnetic waves, the status of the vehicles in the ocean can be detected and explored by analyzing such signals, and this has been gained increasing attention. In this paper, a hybrid algorithm of the ant colony algorithm and Levenberg–Marquardt algorithm is proposed to locate a moving target with a constant speed based on the fully investigation of the uniformly magnetized spheroid model. Additionally, an experiment has been conducted to validate the performance of the hybrid algorithm. At the same time, the comparison between the proposed ellipsoid model with the conventional dipole model has also been done, and the results show that the calculated results based on the prolate spheroid model agree well with the recorded GPS results with maximum 6.67% average error, which is way better than the dipole model (31.59%, max.).
ISSN:2079-9292