Title
A multi-AUV state estimator for determining the 3D position of tagged fish
Abstract
This paper presents a multi-AUV state-estimator that can determine the 3D position of a tagged fish. In addition to angle measurements, the state-estimator also incorporates distance and depth measurements. These additional sensor measurements allow for greater accuracy in the position estimates. A newly developed motion model that better accounts for multiple hypotheses of the motion of a tagged fish is used to increase the robustness of the state-estimator. A series of multi-AUV shark tracks were conducted at Santa Catalina Island, California over the span of four days to demonstrate the ability of the state-estimator to determine the 3D position of a tagged leopard shark. Additional experiments in which the AUVs tracked a tagged boat of known location were conducted to quantify the performance of the presented state-estimator. Experimental results demonstrate a three-fold decrease in mean state-estimation error compared to previous works.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/IROS.2014.6943046
IROS
Keywords
Field
DocType
motion model,distance measurement,angle measurement,santa catalina island,california,motion control,marine engineering,state estimation,autonomous underwater vehicle,mobile robots,tagged leopard shark,multi-robot systems,autonomous underwater vehicles,3d position determination,multiauv shark tracks,position estimation,tagged fish,depth measurement,multiauv state estimator,position control,sensor measurements
Computer vision,State estimator,Computer science,Multiple hypotheses,Robustness (computer science),Hydrophone,Artificial intelligence
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2153-0858
3
0.46
References 
Authors
12
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yukun Lin150.92
Hannah Kastein230.46
Taylor Peterson330.46
Connor White450.92
Christopher G. Lowe5253.30
Christopher M Clark637629.76