A shore-based hydrophone array cooperates with an underwater unmanned vehicle to provide a bearing-only tracking system for underwater targets
Patent Information
- Authority / Receiving Office
- CN · China
- Patent Type
- Patents(China)
- Current Assignee / Owner
- NORTHEASTERN UNIV CHINA
- Filing Date
- 2026-05-28
- Publication Date
- 2026-07-24
AI Technical Summary
Existing multi-node pure orientation cooperative tracking systems fail to effectively address issues such as insufficient observability of shore-based/seabed hydrophone arrays and heterogeneous nodes of underwater unmanned vehicles, cumulative navigation errors, underwater acoustic communication delays, and false alarm interference, making it difficult to meet the continuous tracking requirements of nearshore underwater targets.
An underwater target pure orientation tracking system is adopted, which coordinates a shore-based hydrophone array with an underwater unmanned vehicle. Through measurement reliability assessment, heterogeneous spatiotemporal alignment, joint state estimation and quality perception consistency fusion, combined with recursive least squares, particle filtering and interactive multi-model, the observation geometry control is optimized to form a perception-estimation-control closed loop.
It significantly improves the overall observability and tracking accuracy of the system, reduces the impact of false alarms and navigation errors, ensures robust operation under harsh underwater communication conditions, and enables continuous tracking of slow-moving underwater targets.
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