A Time Difference of Arrival Based Target Motion Analysis for Localization of Underwater Vehicles
The authors present a non-convex, partially observable solution for underwater vehicle localization, referred to as the time difference of arrival target motion analysis (TD-TMA). TD-TMA is especially suitable for the practical case in which localization ambiguities arise due to a lack of receivers, the effective sound velocity is unknown, and cooperation between the nodes is not available. The method relies on periodic emissions from a target vehicle, which are detected by an observer to yield a series of time difference of arrival (TDoA) measurements. The measurements are arranged in the framework of target motion analysis to obtain a set of localization solutions for the target. Maneuvering of either the target or the observer removes ambiguities and yields a single solution. The authors formalize TD-TMA as a least squares optimization problem, and solve it in polynomial time. Numerical results show that TD-TMA provides accurate localization performance in terms of both the target's kinematics and positioning, which are close to the posterior Cramér-Rao lower bound. Two sea experiments successfully demonstrate the effectiveness of the solution in real sea environments.
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Authors:
- Alexandri, Talmon
- Walter, Michael
- Diamant, Roee
- Publication Date: 2022-1
Language
- English
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- Media Type: Web
- Features: References;
- Pagination: pp 326-338
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Serial:
- IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
- Volume: 71
- Issue Number: 1
- Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- ISSN: 0018-9545
- Serial URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=25
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Acoustic measuring instruments; Doppler effect; Moving target indicators; Time dependence; Underwater vehicles
- Subject Areas: Marine Transportation; Vehicles and Equipment;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01835119
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Jan 31 2022 4:50PM