Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
723041 IFAC Proceedings Volumes 2007 6 Pages PDF
Abstract

This paper describes a localization system for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV) in structured underwater environments. It uses a Doppler Velocity Log (DVL) sensor, a pressure sensor, a compass and a mechanically scanning imaging sonar. An Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) merges the information from the DVL and the compass to estimate the robot trajectory. In order to reduce the drift inherent to this process we use acoustic images from an imaging sonar to determine the absolute robot position in the environment and update the estimated trajectory.

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