NETSIM: A Realtime Virtual Ocean Hardware-in-the-loop Acoustic Modem Network Simulator
This paper presents netsim, a combined software/hardware system for performing realtime realistic operation of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) with acoustic modem telemetry in a virtual ocean environment. The design of the system is flexible to the choice of physical link hardware, allowing fo...
Published in: | 2018 Fourth Underwater Communications and Networking Conference (UComms) |
---|---|
Main Authors: | , |
Other Authors: | |
Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | unknown |
Published: |
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
2018
|
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/123822 https://doi.org/10.1109/UComms.2018.8493188 |
id |
ftmit:oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/123822 |
---|---|
record_format |
openpolar |
spelling |
ftmit:oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/123822 2023-06-11T04:09:24+02:00 NETSIM: A Realtime Virtual Ocean Hardware-in-the-loop Acoustic Modem Network Simulator Schneider, Toby Schmidt, Henrik Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering Schmidt, Henrik 2018-08 application/pdf https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/123822 https://doi.org/10.1109/UComms.2018.8493188 unknown Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ucomms.2018.8493188 Fourth Underwater Communications and Networking Conference 9781538664421 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/123822 Schneider, Toby and Henrik Schmidt. "NETSIM: A Realtime Virtual Ocean Hardware-in-the-loop Acoustic Modem Network Simulator." Fourth Underwater Communications and Networking Conference, August 2018, Lerici, Italy, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, October 2018. © 2018 IEEE doi:10.1109/UComms.2018.8493188 Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Prof. Schmidt via Elizabeth Soergel Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper 2018 ftmit https://doi.org/10.1109/UComms.2018.849318810.1109/ucomms.2018.8493188 2023-05-29T08:55:17Z This paper presents netsim, a combined software/hardware system for performing realtime realistic operation of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) with acoustic modem telemetry in a virtual ocean environment. The design of the system is flexible to the choice of physical link hardware, allowing for the system to be tested against existing and new modems. Additionally, the virtual ocean channel simulator is designed to perform in real time by coupling less frequent asynchronous queries to high-fidelity models of the ocean environment and acoustic propagation with frequent pertubation-based updates for the exact position of the simulated AUVs. The results demonstrate the performance of this system using the WHOI Micro-Modem 2 hardware in the virtual ocean environment of the Arctic Beaufort Sea around 73 degrees latitude. The acoustic environment in this area has changed dramatically in recent years due to the changing climate. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Beaufort Sea DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Arctic 2018 Fourth Underwater Communications and Networking Conference (UComms) 1 5 |
institution |
Open Polar |
collection |
DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |
op_collection_id |
ftmit |
language |
unknown |
description |
This paper presents netsim, a combined software/hardware system for performing realtime realistic operation of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) with acoustic modem telemetry in a virtual ocean environment. The design of the system is flexible to the choice of physical link hardware, allowing for the system to be tested against existing and new modems. Additionally, the virtual ocean channel simulator is designed to perform in real time by coupling less frequent asynchronous queries to high-fidelity models of the ocean environment and acoustic propagation with frequent pertubation-based updates for the exact position of the simulated AUVs. The results demonstrate the performance of this system using the WHOI Micro-Modem 2 hardware in the virtual ocean environment of the Arctic Beaufort Sea around 73 degrees latitude. The acoustic environment in this area has changed dramatically in recent years due to the changing climate. |
author2 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering Schmidt, Henrik |
format |
Article in Journal/Newspaper |
author |
Schneider, Toby Schmidt, Henrik |
spellingShingle |
Schneider, Toby Schmidt, Henrik NETSIM: A Realtime Virtual Ocean Hardware-in-the-loop Acoustic Modem Network Simulator |
author_facet |
Schneider, Toby Schmidt, Henrik |
author_sort |
Schneider, Toby |
title |
NETSIM: A Realtime Virtual Ocean Hardware-in-the-loop Acoustic Modem Network Simulator |
title_short |
NETSIM: A Realtime Virtual Ocean Hardware-in-the-loop Acoustic Modem Network Simulator |
title_full |
NETSIM: A Realtime Virtual Ocean Hardware-in-the-loop Acoustic Modem Network Simulator |
title_fullStr |
NETSIM: A Realtime Virtual Ocean Hardware-in-the-loop Acoustic Modem Network Simulator |
title_full_unstemmed |
NETSIM: A Realtime Virtual Ocean Hardware-in-the-loop Acoustic Modem Network Simulator |
title_sort |
netsim: a realtime virtual ocean hardware-in-the-loop acoustic modem network simulator |
publisher |
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
publishDate |
2018 |
url |
https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/123822 https://doi.org/10.1109/UComms.2018.8493188 |
geographic |
Arctic |
geographic_facet |
Arctic |
genre |
Arctic Beaufort Sea |
genre_facet |
Arctic Beaufort Sea |
op_source |
Prof. Schmidt via Elizabeth Soergel |
op_relation |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ucomms.2018.8493188 Fourth Underwater Communications and Networking Conference 9781538664421 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/123822 Schneider, Toby and Henrik Schmidt. "NETSIM: A Realtime Virtual Ocean Hardware-in-the-loop Acoustic Modem Network Simulator." Fourth Underwater Communications and Networking Conference, August 2018, Lerici, Italy, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, October 2018. © 2018 IEEE doi:10.1109/UComms.2018.8493188 |
op_rights |
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
op_doi |
https://doi.org/10.1109/UComms.2018.849318810.1109/ucomms.2018.8493188 |
container_title |
2018 Fourth Underwater Communications and Networking Conference (UComms) |
container_start_page |
1 |
op_container_end_page |
5 |
_version_ |
1768383248442851328 |