Relative acoustic tracking: Woods hole's 'high-res' relative tracking systems RATS (for deep ocean), REMUS (for shallow) obviate LBL system need, reduce costs

Sea Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 21-27

  Austin, Thomas C ^a,b   Stokey, Roger ^a,b  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC RECEIVERS; CALIBRATION; DOCKING; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HYDROPHONES; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTS; POSITION MEASUREMENT; TRACKING (POSITION); TRANSPONDERS; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS; USER INTERFACES;

AUTONOMOUS UNMANNED VEHICLES (AUV); DEEP OCEAN NAVIGATION; RELATIVE ACOUSTIC TRACKING; ULTRASHORT BASELINE (USBL) NAVIGATION TECHNIQUES;

SUBMERSIBLES;

ACOUSTIC TECHNIQUES; POSITIONING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032029855     PISSN: 00933651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (4)

1. Austin, T.C. "The Application of Spread Spectrum Signalling Techniques to Underwater Acoustic Navigation," Proceedings, AUV '94, IEEE Conference on Autonomous Underwater Vehicles, Cambridge Massachusetts, July, 1994.
2. Austin, T.C., R. Stokey, C. von Alt, R. Arthur, R. Goldsborough, "RATS, a Relative Acoustic Tracking System Developed for Deep Ocean Navigation", Proceedings of Oceans '97, Halifax, Canada, 1997
3. Allen, B., R. Stokey, T. Austin, N. Forrester, R. Goldsborough, M. Parcell, C. von Alt, "REMUS: a Small, Low Cost AUV; System Description and Performance Results", Proceedings Oceans' 97, Halifax, Canada, 1997
4. Stokey, R., M. Purcell, N. Forrester, T. Austin, R. Goldsborough, B. Allen, C. von Alt, "A Docking System for REMUS, an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle", Proceedings, Oceans '97, Halifax, Canada, 1997.