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Article Abstract – Lin et al. (2014)

Title:

A Multi-AUV State Estimator for Determining the 3D Position of Tagged Fish

Authors and affiliations:

Lin, Y.¹, H. Kastein², T. Peterson², C. White³, C. Lowe³, and C. Clark²

¹Department of Computer Science, Harvey Mudd College
²Department of Engineering, Harvey Mudd College
³Department of Biological Sciences, California State University, Long Beach

Citation:

2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2014)

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.

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