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Current regulatory issues in the usage of autonomous underwater vehicles
(CMRE, 2019/05)Autonomous Surface Vehicles (ASVs) are becoming increasingly popular for a large number of applications from oceanography to border protection and shipping. In particular, the advent of long-term ASVs allows for months-long ... -
Bandwidth efficient concurrent localisation and communication in underwater acoustic networks
(CMRE, 2019/05)Localisation is essential for an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) to perform its mission and to georeference any data acquired during the dive. When the AUV is part of a heterogeneous underwater acoustic network (UAN), ... -
Localisation using undersea wireless networks
(CMRE, 2019/05)Underwater navigation for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) is a challenging task, requiring a trade-off between performance, costs and operational time. The project Network Long Base Line (Net- LBL) proposes a system ... -
On-board real-time assessment of acoustic environmental parameters relevant to the estimation of sonar performance for autonomous underwater vehicles
(CMRE, 2019/05)CMRE is evaluating the use of autonomous robots for the detection and tracking of underwater targets. Robotic detection and localization comes with many challenges, not the least of which is the requirement to maximize the ... -
A paradigm shift of interoperable submarine rescue operations: the usage of JANUS during the Dynamic Monarch 2017 exercise
(CMRE, 2019/05)The NATO Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE) participated for the first time in the Dynamic Monarch submarine rescue exercise, bringing to the operational players a new interoperable digital underwater ... -
Deployment of a persistent underwater acoustic sensor network: the CommsNet17 experience
(CMRE, 2019/05)This paper presents the experimental activities performed by the NATO STO Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE) during the CommsNet17 trial where a persistent Underwater Acoustic Sensor Network (UASN) was ... -
Adaptive filter of seabed clutter onboard the AUVs of an active multistatic sonar network
(CMRE, 2019/05)This work aims at reducing the false alarm rate of a multistatic active sonar working in coastal, shallow waters. The sonar system is implemented through a heterogeneous manned-unmanned network including autonomous underwater ... -
Recent technological advances in underwater autonomy
(2019/05)Underwater Unmanned systems (or more precisely systems of systems) will definitely play an important role in future maritime surveillance and environmental data collection. For many years, the NATO Centre for Maritime ... -
Autonomous underwater surveillance networks: a task allocation framework to manage cooperation
(2019/05)The design of efficient task allocation schemes is essential to manage autonomous underwater robotic surveillance networks. The network has to assign the most suited robots to the tasks which compose the mission, in spite ... -
Anomaly detection and tracking based on mean-reverting processes with unknown parameters
(CMRE, 2019/05)Piecewise mean-reverting stochastic processes have been recently proposed and validated as an effective model for long-term object prediction. In this paper, we exploit the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck (OU) dynamic model to represent ... -
Real-time underwater positioning and navigation of an AUV in deep waters
(CMRE, 2019/05)Due to the absence of GPS, navigation of autonomous vehicles underwater requires the integration of various measurements to provide the best location estimate. Usually in littoral waters, adequate navigational accuracy may ... -
Extracting acoustic source information of shipping noise for dynamic ambient noise modelling
(CMRE, 2019/05)Shipping traffic is one of the largest contributors to anthropogenic noise in the ocean. Noise generated by merchant ships elevates natural occurring ambient noise level by 20-30 dB in many areas of the world?s ocean. In ... -
Multiple Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes for maritime traffic graph representation
(CMRE, 2019/05)We propose an unsupervised procedure to automatically extract a graph-based model of commercial maritime traffic routes from historical Automatic Identification System (AIS) data. In the proposed representation, the main ... -
The impact of covariance localization on the performance of an ocean EnKF system assimilating glider data in the Ligurian Sea
(CMRE, 2019/05)Data assimilation through an ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) is not exempt from deficiencies, including the generation of long-range unphysical correlations that degrade its performance. The covariance localization technique ... -
Exploiting phase information in synthetic aperture sonar images for target classification
(CMRE, 2019/05)It is demonstrated that the phase information present in complex high-frequency synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) imagery can be exploited for successful object classification. That is, without using the amplitude content of ... -
The new muesli complexity metric for mine-hunting difficulty in sonar images
(CMRE, 2019/05)A new image complexity metric has been developed that fuses the concept of lacunarity, a measure of pixel intensity variation, with the notion of spatial information, a quantity that captures edge energy. This new metric, ... -
Data driven vessel trajectory forecasting using stochastic generative models
(2019/05)In this work, we propose a data driven trajectory forecasting algorithm that utilizes both recorded historical and streaming trajectory observations. The algorithm performs Bayesian inference on a directed graph the walks ... -
Detecting anomalous deviations from standard maritime routes using the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process
(CMRE, 2019/05)A novel anomaly detection procedure based on the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck (OU) mean-reverting stochastic process is presented. The considered anomaly is a vessel that deviates from a planned route, changing its nominal velocity ... -
Gamified approach in the context of situational assessment: a comparison of human factors methods
(CMRE, 2019/05)Decision support tools are increasingly common in daily tasks, with a core component of enhancing user Situational Awareness required for an informed decision. With the goal of informing the design of automated reasoners ... -
An ordered family of consistency measures of belief functions
(CMRE, 2019/05)We propose a family of measures of consistency (and induced conflict) derived from a definition of consistent belief functions introduced previously. Besides satisfying the desired properties of monotonicity, boundedness, ...