An efficient, time-of-flight-based underwater acoustic ranging system for small robotic fish

IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 837-846

  Shatara, Stephan ^a   Tan, Xiaobo ^b  

^a MOTOROLA INC   (United States)

^b Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic ranging; aquatic sensor networks; localization; robotic fish; sliding discrete Fourier transform (SDFT)

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC RANGING; AQUATIC SENSOR NETWORKS; LOCALIZATION; ROBOTIC FISH; SLIDING DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORM (SDFT);

ALGORITHMS; BIOMIMETICS; DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FISH; LAKES; MICROPHONES; RANGE FINDING; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; SENSOR NETWORKS;

UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

EID: 78649735201     PISSN: 03649059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JOE.2010.2060810     Document Type: Article

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