Cooperative Underwater Surveillance Networks (COUSIN)

Lead Research Organisation: University of York
Department Name: Electronics

Abstract

Underwater monitoring and surveillance (UMS) for a country surrounded by sea is an exceptionally important task. Important applications include port/harbour security, pollution monitoring, people trafficking, smuggling, maintaining integrity and detecting attacks on underwater infrastructure. The purpose of such systems is to detect, localise and classify underwater targets, and communicate this information to the authorities. The targets can be manned or unmanned underwater and surface vehicles, sources of pollution, mines, pipelines, cables, divers, swimmers, animals, etc.

Surveillance has been traditionally based on using surface ships and manned submarines, which are very costly to operate. Due to the physical properties of water, UMS systems, in the majority of cases, exploit acoustic waves. Sound navigation and ranging (SONAR) is a key technology for underwater imaging and target detection, and is an equivalent technology to radio detection and ranging (RADAR) which is widely used in above water environments.

Recent developments in underwater acoustic (UWA) communication networks, underwater robotics and vehicles make it timely to consider the development of cooperative UWA networks based on the use of low-cost static and moving sensor (including SONAR) nodes. Our hypothesis is that such networks can significantly enhance performance and reduce the cost of surveillance operations, and that UMS sonar, communication and navigation systems must be jointly designed and optimised to achieve the greatest performance. Given recent developments in radio systems for surveillance, it is clear that significant advances can be similarly achieved in UMS systems.

Our aim in this project is to investigate and practically demonstrate (at sea) novel joint designs of low-cost UWA networks for enhanced UMS. This will build upon our experience and recent collaborative success in the theoretical research and practical design of UWA sensor networks at the respective universities.

Publications

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Huang G (2022) BQN: Busy-Quiet Net Enabled by Motion Band-Pass Module for Action Recognition. in IEEE transactions on image processing : a publication of the IEEE Signal Processing Society

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Morozs N (2022) Data Gathering in UWA Sensor Networks: Practical Considerations and Lessons from Sea Trials in Journal of Marine Science and Engineering

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Shen L (2022) Finite-window RLS algorithms in Signal Processing

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Henson B (2022) Full-Duplex UAC Receiver With Two-Sensor Transducer in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs

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Yu Y (2024) Robust Proportionate Subband Adaptive Filter Algorithms with Optimal Variable Step-size in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs

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Yu Y (2022) Sparsity-Aware Robust Normalized Subband Adaptive Filtering Algorithms With Alternating Optimization of Parameters in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs

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Huang X (2023) Squared Sine Adaptive Algorithm and Its Performance Analysis in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing

 
Description TO BE COMPLETED AT THE END OF THE PROJECT AND SUBSEQUENTLY UPDATED.
Exploitation Route TO BE COMPLETED AT THE END OF THE PROJECT AND SUBSEQUENTLY UPDATED.
Sectors Aerospace

Defence and Marine

Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software)

Electronics

 
Description TO BE COMPLETED AT THE END OF THE PROJECT AND SUBSEQUENTLY UPDATED.
Sector Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Electronics
 
Description Knowledge exchange and impact enhancement of autonomous biomimetic robot-fish
Amount £7,965 (GBP)
Organisation Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start  
 
Title Target detection experimental capability 
Description We have extended our experimental capability to allow underwater targets to be detected through acoustic communication. 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2023 
Provided To Others? No  
Impact Useful data 
 
Description QinetiQ 
Organisation Qinetiq
Department QinetiQ Haslar
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Have collaborated on underwater acoustic channel modelling.
Collaborator Contribution Have collaborated on underwater acoustic channel modelling.
Impact Project deliverables. Preparation of a conference paper.
Start Year 2021
 
Description Sonardyne 
Organisation Sonardyne International Ltd
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Private 
PI Contribution Collaborated on a DSTL research project. We worked on development of a protocol stack for underwater acoustic networking.
Collaborator Contribution Collaborated on a DSTL research project. Sonardyne worked on the physical layer for underwater acoustic communications.
Impact Membership of a NATO IST group on underwater channel modelling.
Start Year 2021
 
Description International Scientific Conference on Telecommunications, Informatics, Energy and Management (TIEM) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Plenary talk
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.tiem2023.com/