The invention relates to the technical field of
underwater positioning, in particular to a single
beacon positioning method of an
underwater vehicle. According to the single
beacon positioning methodof the
underwater vehicle with global convergence, an
underwater vehicle is provided with a
hydrophone, a Doppler velocimeter, a depth meter, an attitude heading reference
system and a GPS; and underwater acoustic beacons periodically broadcast underwater acoustic signals. According to the method, a nonlinear single
beacon positioning model in a discrete state is converted into a linear time-varying model through state augmentation; when the underwater acoustic
signal is not received, the relative speed and the attitude of the
underwater vehicle and water by a device carried by the underwatervehicle are obtained to carry out
dead reckoning; after the underwater acoustic
signal is received, the underwater acoustic
signal transmission time is collected through known underwater acoustic signal
transmission time and is taken as an observation variable, and
dead reckoning data and
observation data of various sensors are simultaneously integrated to predict and update the single beacon positioning based on Kalman filtering. On the premise of meeting the
observability of a positioning model, the method has global exponential convergence.