Multi-Modal Local Sensing and Communication for Collective Underwater Systems
This work addresses the need for effective local sensing and communication in collective underwater robotic systems, but the results are incremental and lack quantitative performance metrics.
The paper demonstrates that combining modal and sub-modal communication for robot-robot and robot-object detection enables dedicated cooperation between multiple AUVs in collective underwater systems. It describes technologies, platforms, and experiments supporting this approach.
This paper is devoted to local sensing and communication for collective underwater systems used in networked and swarm modes. It is demonstrated that a specific combination of modal and sub-modal communication, used simultaneously for robot-robot and robot-object detection, can create a dedicated cooperation between multiple AUVs. These technologies, platforms and experiments are shortly described, and allow us to make a conclusion about useful combinations of different signaling approaches for collective underwater systems.