Positioning Method for Underwater Target by Sea-Surface Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract:

To solve the precise positioning issue of underwater maneuver targets (UMTs), based on sea-surface wireless sensor networks (S2WSN) technique, this paper proposes a new positioning algorithm without exterior satellite-based or earth-based wireless navigation information as well as underwater space-time datum. The measure equations of UMT’s positioning are assembled by combining the relative radio ranges among ships with the angles of arrival from UMT. Monte Carlo simulation demonstrates that the bias of the proposed algorithm, in which the weight of heterogeneous information is adaptively adjusted by Helmert technology, is only 10% around of the conventional single platform acoustics positioning technology.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 488-489)
• Pages: 1473-1479
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.488-489.1473
• Online since: March 2012
• Authors: Wei Ming Xu, Lin Hai Wei, Geng Feng Wang
• Keywords: Angle of Arrival, Cooperative Positioning, Relative Ranging, Underwater Maneuver Target, Wireless Sensor Network (WSN)

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