State-of-the-Art of Standalone Accurate AUV Positioning-Application to High Resolution Bathymetric Surveys

Pierre Benet, Fabien Novella, Marie Ponchart, Pierre Bosser, Benoit Clement

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Abstract

Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) represent a very promising tool for high resolution bathymetric surveys. In this context, this article presents a state-of-the-art of precise underwater navigation. While classical acoustic underwater positioning systems (USBL, LBL) provide a sufficient level of precision, they suffer from deployment difficulties: beacons immersion, need for support vessel, etc.. Therefore these methods are not further developed in this article and a conventional underwater navigation method consists in inertial navigation. However, position accuracy of inertial systems drifts over time, making it incompatible with bathymetric survey quality requirements for long missions. To limit this drift, external speed sensors (a Doppler Velocity Log-DVL-most of the time) are used: this is called Aided Inertial Navigation System (AINS). AINS performances depend on sensor performances, data fusion algorithms and mission pattern followed by the AUV. These considerations are presented in this paper and illustrated by two sea trials conducted in the bay of Brest (France). Finally, Terrain Based Navigation (TBN), Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) and Synthetic Aperture Sonar (SAS) micronavigation are presented as emerging methods that could help to reduce or bound the position uncertainty drift.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationOCEANS 2019 - Marseille, OCEANS Marseille 2019
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9781728114507
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jun 2019
Externally publishedYes
Event2019 OCEANS - Marseille, OCEANS Marseille 2019 - Marseille, France
Duration: 17 Jun 201920 Jun 2019

Publication series

NameOCEANS 2019 - Marseille, OCEANS Marseille 2019
Volume2019-June

Conference

Conference2019 OCEANS - Marseille, OCEANS Marseille 2019
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityMarseille
Period17/06/1920/06/19

Keywords

  • Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV)
  • Doppler Velocity Log (DVL)
  • Extended Kalman filter (EKF)
  • Inertial Navigation System (INS)

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