An adaptive sampling solution using autonomous underwater vehicles

Baozhi Chen, Parul Pandey, Dario Pompili

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9 Scopus citations

Abstract

To achieve efficient and cost-effective sensing coverage of the vast under-sampled 3D aquatic volume, intelligent adaptive sampling strategies involving Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) endowed with underwater wireless (acoustic) communication capabilities are essential. These AUVs should coordinate and steer through the region of interest, and cooperatively sense, preprocess and transmit measured data to onshore stations for processing and analysis. Given a scalar field to sample, i.e, a phenomenon like temperature or salinity distribution, the AUVs should coordinate to take measurements using minimal resources (time or energy) in order to reconstruct the field with admissible error. A novel adaptive sampling solution to minimize the sampling cost is proposed, which requires the AUVs to take a small number of samples from the field. We observe via simulations that our solution outperforms existing solutions that are based on Compressive Sensing (CS) techniques.

Original languageAmerican English
Title of host publication9th IFAC Conference on Manoeuvring and Control of Marine Craft, MCMC 2012 - Proceedings
PublisherIFAC Secretariat
Pages352-356
Number of pages5
EditionPART 1
ISBN (Print)9783902823601
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Event9th IFAC Conference on Manoeuvring and Control of Marine Craft, MCMC 2012 - Arenzano, Italy
Duration: Sep 19 2012Sep 21 2012

Publication series

NameIFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline)
NumberPART 1
Volume9

Other

Other9th IFAC Conference on Manoeuvring and Control of Marine Craft, MCMC 2012
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityArenzano
Period9/19/129/21/12

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Control and Systems Engineering

Keywords

  • Adaptive Sampling
  • Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
  • Compressive Sensing

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