Underwater vehicle for surveillance with navigation and swarm network communication

Abstract

Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) have gained more popularity in recent years for military as well as civilian applications. One potential application of AUVs is for the purpose of undersea surveillance. As research into underwater surveillance using AUVs progresses, issues arise as to how an AUV acquires acts on, and shares information about underwater battle space. These issues naturally touch on aspects of vehicle autonomy and underwater communications, and need to be resolved through a spiral development process that includes experiments at sea. This paper presents implementation of swarm network communication for AUVs which is used to transfer the data, to communicate with another to perform tasks as an intelligent group including surveillance. When a task identified from a seafloor, a single AUV could follow that task and report the whereabouts. Other vehicles in the swarm could track additional individuals, produce detailed maps of the area, detect AUV updates to a distant command post. As individual AUV leave the swarm to fulfill their assigned tasks, the swarm could autonomously reorient itself. This reduces the inspection duration inspection cost for underwater vehicle. This paper has described the on-board signal processing including a navigation and network communication which were successfully implemented. The vehicle is designed and simulation is studied computer analysis as per the required parameters and condition. The Simulation of swarm network communication navigation multi-path trajectory is performed.