基于倒置声学基阵的INSUSBL组合导航算法研究

文中关注水下潜航器导航定位时,电磁波传播途径中能量衰减、惯导系统长航时积累误差以及提高水下潜航器定位精度等问题。基于倒置的超短基线声学基阵,分析声波往返传播时间(RTT)、平面波近似方法和USBL导航解算方法及其坐标转换过程,结合INS误差方程,建立INS/USBL松组合模型。为进一步提高系统精度、动态性能和抗干扰性,考察USBL的原始斜距、斜距差以及声学基阵的空间分布信息,提出基于USBL原始输出信息的INS/USBL紧耦合组合导航方法。通过MATLAB仿真对导航算法进行验证,结果表明两种算法能充分抑制纯惯导误差随时间积累问题,且有效地估计出姿态、速度和位置误差角;其中紧耦合方法状态估计误差最小,导航参数精度相对松组合提高30%以上,对于提高水下载体导航定位精度、海洋探测具有重大意义。     

海底地形匹配高效质点滤波导航方法

海底地形匹配导航技术可实现自主水下机器人(Autonomous Underwater Vehicle,AUV)长时间的水下精确导航。质点滤波器(Point-Mass Filter,PMF)是实现 AUV 精确海底地形匹配导航的重要方法,但质点权重计算过程中需要寻找空间分布不规则的实测地形数据点与网格化先验地形图数据点间空间对应关系,造成大量计算消耗,严重影响了地形匹配导航算法实时性能。提出一种海底地形匹配高效质点滤波导航方法,通过构建伪输入高斯过程(Sparse Pseudo-input Gaussian Processes,SPGPs)模型,实现实测海底地形数据高效、精确网格化插值过程,并根据 SPGPs 方法提供的插值置信度实现网格化概率地图构建;搭建质点滤波器算法框架,提出适用于概率地图的质点权重计算过程,通过考虑网格化地图不同节点插值置信程度差别,提高地形匹配导航精度。于青岛中沙礁展开海上数据获取试验,并利用海试数据完成算法回放式仿真验证。试验结果证明,所提出网格化插值方法可实现高精度、高效地形深度插值过程,所提出海底地形匹配高效质点滤波导航方法可为 AUV 在线提供精确导航结果,且实时导航圆概率误差小于 3 m。     

AUV自主导航航位推算算法的分析研究

地球形状的不规则性,各种导航传感器本身的误差,以及仪器的安装偏差等,使得AUV(自治水下机器人)在进行远距离自主航行时,自主导航的精度大大下降。针对以上问题及实际工程需要,论文对AUV自主导航的航位推算算法做了进一步研究并加以改进,以提高其自主导航精度。最后,利用2004年中国科学院沈阳自动化所水下机器人研究中心进行AUV湖试所获得的数据,对文中提出的算法进行了验证。结果表明,AUV的自主导航精度得到大大提高,可以用于修正原来的自主导航算法。     

面向回坞任务的AUV航向控制方式研究

AUV自主回坞是实现其水下回收和能源补充的基础,回坞过程中的航向控制技术是能否成功回坞的关键,介绍了基于超短基线声学传感器引导的某重型AUV的回坞方案设计、制导原理和路径跟踪控制方法;研究了水平面内航行器路径跟踪的航向控制问题,提出了回坞时,可以增加横贯推进器或侧翼推进器来进行航向控制的方法。通过湖上试验,验证了以上方法和算法的有效性并得出以下结论:两种方法都适用于水下回坞,侧翼转向更适合有小区域转向需求的AUV;采用横贯推进器进行航向调整,AUV转弯过程深度变化小,深度偏差均值在0.5 m以内;在对折线形的路径进行跟踪时,跟踪能力更强,末程入坞阶段,与设定航线距离偏差均值比侧翼转向方式小0.34 m。     

便携式AUV水下对接过程中的碰撞分析与罩式对接平台优化设计

以便携式自主水下机器人(AUV)和罩式导向对接平台的水下对接过程为研究对象,将碰撞力大小和对接时间作为评价指标,研究导向罩形状、对接管尺度以及AUV与对接管的偏心距对整个对接过程的影响。在三维建模的基础上,使用ADAMS软件进行动力学仿真分析,结果表明,减小导向罩开口角度、增大对接管直径、减小偏心距可以适当减小碰撞力和对接时间。通过对上述影响因素与评价指标建立函数关系,利用多目标优化设计的方法并结合实际情况对参数做出合理的分析和筛选,为水下机器人对接平台提供设计依据。     

基于改进量子粒子群算法的AUV路径规划研究

针对海洋环境下自主水下机器人（AUV）的路径规划问题,提出了一种基于框架四叉树的改进量子粒子群算法（QPSO）,首先使用框架四叉树的方法对障碍物建模,该方法提高了建模的精度且对后续算法的效率也有极大的改进,之后设计改进的量子粒子群算法,并且结合水下环境的特殊性设计适应度函数,综合考虑航线路径长度、偏转角度以及海流影响,使得算法可以在水下环境中寻得能耗最短的解路径。最后通过仿真试验验证,相比于传统的栅格法和粒子群算法,改进量子粒子群算法的运算时间更短,收敛速度更快,其独特的适应度函数可以使AUV能更好适应水下多变的环境,且能利用海流设计能耗更小的路径,具有很大的实用价值。     

AUV水下对接装置控制系统设计

自主式水下机器人(Autonomous Underwater Vehicle,简称AUV)在航行使命结束后需要回收至甲板或陆地进行补给和维护。为避免重复布放回收所带来的不便,根据锥形导向式回收原理,针对水下对接装置及其控制系统进行了设计。水下对接装置控制系统由水面控制终端,水下控制系统和水下外部设备等部分组成,使用超短基线引导AUV进入指定区域,在对接过程中依靠行程开关和无线电反馈的信息判断AUV的相对位置及状态,并通过驱动相应的液压机构对AUV姿态进行校正和固定,进而完成对接过程。水下对接装置在千岛湖进行了试验,在吊装水下7 m的情况下实现了AUV的水下对接,并利用湿插拔电连接器完成了对AUV的有线充电和数据上传。试验验证了对接方案的可行性以及控制系统的稳定性,为将来AUV能够进行长时间、不间断航行提供了可能。     

基于卡尔曼滤波的INS／USBL水下导航系统模型研究

简述惯性导航技术(INS)和超短基线定位技术(USBL),并分析了各自的优缺点.为了满足深海作业对导航定位高精度、高数据更新率的技术需求,提出基于卡尔曼滤波技术(Kalman Filter)实现INS和USBL的融合集成,研究了系统模型,进行了水下定位试验,给出了误差分析结果,证明了模型的可靠性.     

水下导航定位技术在大洋科考调查中的应用

水下声学定位、惯性导航定位、多普勒声纳以及组合导航定位是目前我国大洋科考调查工作中的几种主要水下导航定位技术。通过分析常规调查装备、ROV、AUV和载人潜水器等4类主要水下科考设备的导航定位系统实测数据,给出不同水下导航定位模式的现场作业精度,为我国大洋科考调查工作中水下导航定位技术的选择与应用等工作提供参考。     

自主水下航行器离散反馈避碰设计及仿真

为了使自主水下航行器(AUV)避碰仿真更接近实际情况,在离散时间系统中考虑海流作用,设计了AUV反馈避碰算法.针对海底探测AUV的运行特点,考虑海流作用,建立AUV垂直平面的状态空间方程.在每一个离散时间节点.利用障碍物高度信息,计算下一时刻AUV的深度目标值.然后利用反馈控制方法对其响应,在仿真时间内不断循环完成避碰仿真.对不同流场下不同高度的矩形障碍物,进行了避碰仿真.仿真结果证明了系统的可行性和合理性.     

基于GPS的水下导航算法误差仿真研究

首先介绍了水下导航算法,采用GPS和水下参量测算相结合的方案,即当运行器在水下运行时,利用电子罗盘测量运行器的相对航向,水流传感器测算运行器的相对速度大小,利用学习阶段计算出海水流速,在水下运行器潜行时进行船位推算导航,用GPS精准的定位信号进行导航误差的校正。此算法精度的高低很大程度上取决于用来进行水下参量测算的传感器和用来方位校准的GPS。文中从各个传感器的误差着手,通过模拟仿真详细分析了电子罗盘、水流传感器和GPS的误差对导航精度的影响,对工程应用具有实际的指导意义。     

Autonomous underwater vehicle homing/docking via electromagneticguidance

Central to the successful operation of an autonomous undersea vehicle (AUV) is the capability to return to a dock, such that consistent recovery of the AUV is practical. Vehicle orientation becomes increasingly important in the final stages of the docking, as large changes in orientation near the dock are impractical and often not possible. A number of homing technologies have been proposed and tested, with acoustic homing the most prevalent. If AUV orientation is required as well as bearing and distance to the dock, an acoustic homing system will require high update rates, and extensive signal conditioning. An Electromagnetic Homing (EM) system is one alternative that can provide accurate measurement of the AUV position and orientation to the dock during homing. This system offers inherent advantages in defining the AUV orientation, when compared to high frequency acoustic systems. The design and testing of an EM homing system are given, with particular attention to one can be adapted to a wide class of AUVs. A number of homing, docking, and latching trials were successfully performed with the design. Homing data include dead reckoning computation and acoustic tracking of the homing track, and video documentation of homing into the dock     

Docking for an autonomous ocean sampling network

In this paper, we examine the issues associated with docking autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) operating within an Autonomous Ocean Sampling Network (AOSN). We present a system based upon an acoustic ultrashort baseline system that allows the AUV to approach the dock from any direction. A passive latch on the AUV and a pole on the dock accomplish the task of mechanically docking the vehicle. We show that our technique for homing is extremely robust in the face of the two dominant sources of error-namely the presence of currents and the presence of magnetic anomalies. Our strategy for homing is independent of the initial bearing of the dock to the AUV, includes a method for detecting when the vehicle has missed the dock, and automatically ensures that the AUV is in a position to retry homing with a greater chance of success. Our approach is seen to be extremely successful in homing the vehicle to the dock, mechanically attaching itself to the dock, aligning inductive cores for data and power transfer, and undocking at the start of a fresh mission. Once the AUV is on the dock, we present a methodology that allows us to achieve the complex tasks with ensuring that the AUV is securely docked, periodically checking vehicle status, reacting to a vehicle that requires charging, tracking it when it is out on a mission, archiving and transmitting via satellite the data that the AUV collects during its missions, as well as providing a mechanism for researchers removed from the site to learn about vehicle status and command high-level missions. The dock is capable of long-term deployments at a remote site while respecting the constraints - low power, small size, low computational energy, low bandwidth, and little or no user input - imposed by the amalgamation of acoustic, electronic and mechanical components that comprise the entire system     

Enabling technologies for REMUS docking: an integral component ofan autonomous ocean-sampling network

A dock for an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) allows the vehicle to be left on station ready for deployment. However, it represents a significant engineering challenge, as docking requires an accurate navigation system so that the vehicle can find the dock, and complex mechanics to make the required underwater power and data connections. This paper describes the docking system built for the REMUS AUV. It outlines the basis for the design decisions, the as-built configuration, and its performance once deployed. It also delineates the lessons learned from the deployments, and the refinements in the vehicle that have been made since that time, that will improve the system's utility and reliability     

多传感器组合导航系统研究

为了满足水下航行器高精度导航定位的需求,建立了多传感器组合导航的系统模型。针对信息融合过程中出现的非线性环节,在传统联邦滤波器的基础上,提出了基于粒子滤波的混合联邦滤波器。其中,线性子系统采用卡尔曼滤波算法进行滤波估计,非线性子系统采用粒子滤波算法进行滤波估计。计算机仿真分析表明,该混合联邦滤波算法能够将线性和非线性子系统的滤波结果很好地融合起来,提高了组合导航系统的定位精度。     

Experiments on vision guided docking of an autonomous underwater vehicle using one camera

This paper introduces an underwater docking procedure for the test-bed autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) platform called ISiMI using one charge-coupled device (CCD) camera. The AUV is optically guided by lights mounted around the entrance of a docking station and a vision system consisting of a CCD camera and a frame grabber in the AUV. This paper presents an image processing procedure to identify the dock by discriminating between light images, and proposes a final approach algorithm based on the vision guidance. A signal processing technique to remove noise on the defused grabbed light images is introduced, and a two-stage final approach for stable docking at the terminal instant is suggested. A vision-guidance controller was designed with conventional PID controllers for the vertical plane and the horizontal plane. Experiments were conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness of the vision-guided docking system of the AUV.     

Survey of underwater robot positioning navigation

Underwater robot positioning and navigation achieve autonomous underwater robot movement based on the premise that positioning obtains the coordinates of the relative position of the underwater robot using a sensor, and navigation yields a known location to the destination path planning. Due to the location of an underwater robot and the complex and changing environment in which it operates, it is difficult to achieve precise positioning using the traditional positioning method. This paper systematically analyzes and summarizes several typical localization and navigation methods of underwater robots, such as multisensor information fusion technology, underwater acoustic localization and navigation methods, GPS buoy, underwater vision, SLAM and coordinate localization and navigation of multiple underwater robots. Multisensory information fusion technology integrates the advantages of the above methods, enhances the system stability and robustness, overcomes the disadvantages of traditional positioning and navigation, and enables the autonomous navigation and positioning of underwater robots. Underwater acoustics enable flexible and convenient positioning, whereas GPS can achieve high-precision and high-positioning navigation information, and visual positioning effectively overcomes the problem of error accumulation. Multirobot cooperative positioning resolves the problem of positioning failure caused by the collapse of a single system and completes complex tasks that cannot be completed by a single robot, thus enhancing the stability and robustness of the system. This paper systematically describes the realization of these methods, presents an actual analysis of their respective advantages and problems, and discusses the development of the field of research prospects and application prospects.     

用于AUV定位的等效声速剖面改进算法研究

以自主式水下机器人为载体,搭载多种测量设备的深海工程作业的方式,目前已经得到了广泛的应用。而基于AUV完成各类水下任务的前提是能否精确的进行定位,传统的声学定位方法因过于依赖声速剖面而导致定位精度不高且造成实际操作过程复杂化,在各种声线改进的方法中,等效声速剖面法的计算过程较为简单,且对实际声速剖面的依赖程度较低,然而最大的问题是相对面积误差的求解过于复杂。结合AUV自身特点,提出了超短基线与等效声速剖面法相结合的水下AUV定位方法,并改进了等效声速剖面法。实验结果表明,改进后的方法计算精度得到提高且相对面积误差的求解更加简单,另外也改进了原始方法误差随水深及掠射角变化而增加的问题,具有良好的工程应用价值。