Zhang Lichuan

Design and experiment of automatic pilot for long-rang AUVs

The design of autonomous underwater vehicles is a complex work. In the past engineers designed AUV with concentrated-frame, this caught a lot of disadvantages, such as computerpsilas hard load, low capability of fault-tolerate, high failure rate and so on. Additionally the missions are more and more complex, AUVs need take more sensors to complete the mission, especially for long-rang AUVs. Traditional design method meets difficulties. This paper outlines a new method to design automatic pilot for long-range AUV. Distributed-frame structure is used to avoid the above shorts. In the hardware design CAN bus is adopted, this makes the communication between controller and executor more quickly. And in software design a real-time operation system called uC/OS is used, it solves the problem of time-delay. In the end the experimentation data shows that the system works well.

Cooperative Navigation Algorithm for Two Leaders GUUV

In this paper, we propose a moving long baseline algorithm based on double acoustic measurement for cooperative navigation of Group Unmanned Underwater Vehicle. Research on cooperative navigation of GUUV is an important topic to solve the navigation problem in long range and deep sea. We investigate the improvement in navigation accuracy. In the Leader-follow structure, the leader UUV is equipped with high precision navigation system, and the follow UUV is equipped with low precision navigation system. They all are equipped with acoustic device to measure relative location. Traditionally geometry triangulation method is used to calculate the position of follow UUV, the method may cause fault error solution. Double acoustic measurement method was designed, which fused the proprioceptive and exteroceptive sensors. The research results prove that the navigation accuracy has been improved effectively.