Cooperative robotic networks for underwater surveillance: an overview
Underwater surveillance has traditionally been carried out by means of surface and undersea manned vessels equipped with advanced sensor systems. This approach is often costly and manpower intensive. Marine robotics is an emerging technological area that enables the development of advanced networks...
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| author | Gabriele Ferri* Andrea Munafò* Alessandra Tesei Paolo Braca Florian Meyer Konstantinos Pelekanakis Roberto Petroccia João Alves Christopher Strode Kevin LePage |
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| description | Underwater surveillance has traditionally been carried out by means of surface and undersea manned vessels equipped with advanced sensor systems. This approach is often costly and manpower intensive. Marine robotics is an emerging technological area that enables the development of advanced networks for underwater surveillance applications. In contrast with the use of standard assets, these advanced networks are typically composed of small, low‐power, and possibly mobile robots, which have limited endurance, processing and wireless communication capabilities. When deployed in a region of interest, these robots can cooperatively form an intelligent network achieving high performance with significant features of scalability, adaptability, robustness, persistence and reliability. Such networks of robots can be the enabling technology for a wide range of applications in the maritime domain. However, they also introduce new challenges for underwater distributed sensing, data processing and analysis, autonomy and communications. The main thrust of this study is to review the underwater surveillance scenario within a framework of four research areas: (i) underwater robotics, (ii) acoustic signal processing, (iii) tracking and distributed information fusion, and (iv) underwater communications networks. Progress in each of these areas as well as future challenges is presented. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5ab969d5912c4093a642be4ff8bac8af2022-12-22T00:59:41ZengWileyIET Radar, Sonar & Navigation1751-87841751-87922017-12-0111121740176110.1049/iet-rsn.2017.0074Cooperative robotic networks for underwater surveillance: an overviewGabriele Ferri*0Andrea Munafò*1Alessandra Tesei2Paolo Braca3Florian Meyer4Konstantinos Pelekanakis5Roberto Petroccia6João Alves7Christopher Strode8Kevin LePage9NATO STO‐Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE)Viale San Bartolomeo 40019127La SpeziaSPItalyMarine Autonomous & Robotic Systems (MARS)National Oceanography CentreUniversity of Southampton Waterfront CampusEuropean WaySouthamptonSO14 3ZHUKNATO STO‐Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE)Viale San Bartolomeo 40019127La SpeziaSPItalyNATO STO‐Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE)Viale San Bartolomeo 40019127La SpeziaSPItalyLaboratory for Information & Decision Systems (LIDS)Massachusetts Institute of Technology77 Massachusetts AvenueCambridgeMA02139USANATO STO‐Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE)Viale San Bartolomeo 40019127La SpeziaSPItalyNATO STO‐Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE)Viale San Bartolomeo 40019127La SpeziaSPItalyNATO STO‐Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE)Viale San Bartolomeo 40019127La SpeziaSPItalyNATO STO‐Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE)Viale San Bartolomeo 40019127La SpeziaSPItalyNATO STO‐Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE)Viale San Bartolomeo 40019127La SpeziaSPItalyUnderwater surveillance has traditionally been carried out by means of surface and undersea manned vessels equipped with advanced sensor systems. This approach is often costly and manpower intensive. Marine robotics is an emerging technological area that enables the development of advanced networks for underwater surveillance applications. In contrast with the use of standard assets, these advanced networks are typically composed of small, low‐power, and possibly mobile robots, which have limited endurance, processing and wireless communication capabilities. When deployed in a region of interest, these robots can cooperatively form an intelligent network achieving high performance with significant features of scalability, adaptability, robustness, persistence and reliability. Such networks of robots can be the enabling technology for a wide range of applications in the maritime domain. However, they also introduce new challenges for underwater distributed sensing, data processing and analysis, autonomy and communications. The main thrust of this study is to review the underwater surveillance scenario within a framework of four research areas: (i) underwater robotics, (ii) acoustic signal processing, (iii) tracking and distributed information fusion, and (iv) underwater communications networks. Progress in each of these areas as well as future challenges is presented.https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-rsn.2017.0074cooperative robotic networksunderwater surveillanceundersea manned vesselsadvanced sensor systemsmarine roboticsmobile robots |
| spellingShingle | Gabriele Ferri* Andrea Munafò* Alessandra Tesei Paolo Braca Florian Meyer Konstantinos Pelekanakis Roberto Petroccia João Alves Christopher Strode Kevin LePage Cooperative robotic networks for underwater surveillance: an overview IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation cooperative robotic networks underwater surveillance undersea manned vessels advanced sensor systems marine robotics mobile robots |
| title | Cooperative robotic networks for underwater surveillance: an overview |
| title_full | Cooperative robotic networks for underwater surveillance: an overview |
| title_fullStr | Cooperative robotic networks for underwater surveillance: an overview |
| title_full_unstemmed | Cooperative robotic networks for underwater surveillance: an overview |
| title_short | Cooperative robotic networks for underwater surveillance: an overview |
| title_sort | cooperative robotic networks for underwater surveillance an overview |
| topic | cooperative robotic networks underwater surveillance undersea manned vessels advanced sensor systems marine robotics mobile robots |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-rsn.2017.0074 |
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