CMRE Open Library: Recent submissions
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Scoring robotic competitions: balancing judging promptness and meaningful performance evaluation
(CMRE, 2019/05)To have a significant and fair competition an adequate scoring system is necessary. Different scoring systems exist, each one directly related to the nature and goals of the competition, e.g. student/educational, focused ... -
Maritime anomaly detection based on mean-reverting stochastic processes applied to a real-world scenario
(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 ... -
Information and source quality ontology in support of maritime situational awareness
(CMRE, 2019/05)To support situation awareness, the benefit of using a variety of sources is undeniable although it brings additional challenges related to possible conflicting information, heterogeneity in data formats, semantics, ... -
Prediction of rendezvous in maritime situational awareness
(CMRE, 2019/05)In this work, we consider the problem of algorithmically predicting rendezvous among vessels based on their trajectory forecasts in a maritime environment. The problem is treated as hypothesis testing on the expected value ... -
Bayesian track-to-graph association for maritime traffic monitoring
(CMRE, 2019/05)We present a hypothesis test to associate ship track measurements to an edge of a given graph that statistically models common traffic routes in a given area of interest. The association algorithm is based on the hypothesis ... -
Bayesian multi-class covariance matrix filtering for adaptive environment learning
(CMRE, 2019/05)Covariance matrix estimation is a crucial task in adaptive signal processing applied to several surveillance systems, including radar and sonar. In this paper we propose a dynamic environment learning strategy to track ... -
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 ...