Elevation Angle Estimations of Wide-Beam Acoustic Sonar Measurements for Autonomous Underwater Karst Exploration

Sensors
Yohan Breux, Lionel Lapierre

Abstract

This paper proposes a solution for merging the measurements from two perpendicular profiling sonars with different beam-widths, in the context of underwater karst (cave) exploration and mapping. This work is a key step towards the development of a full 6D pose SLAM framework adapted to karst aquifer, where potential water turbidity disqualifies vision-based methods, hence relying on acoustic sonar measurements. Those environments have complex geometries which require 3D sensing. Wide-beam sonars are mandatory to cover previously seen surfaces but do not provide 3D measurements as the elevation angles are unknown. The approach proposed in this paper leverages the narrow-beam sonar measurements to estimate local karst surface with Gaussian process regression. The estimated surface is then further exploited to infer scaled-beta distributions of elevation angles from a wide-beam sonar. The pertinence of the method was validated through experiments on simulated environments. As a result, this approach allows one to benefit from the high coverage provided by wide-beam sonars without the drawback of loosing 3D information.

References

Jan 6, 2016·IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence·Sren HaubergMichael J Black
Apr 23, 2016·Sensors·Albert PalomerDavid Ribas

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