Sub-sea acoustic remote communications utilising an adaptive receiving beamformer for multipath suppression

Author

Howe, G.S. ; Tarbit, P.S.D. ; Hinton, O.R. ; Sharif, B.S. ; Adams, A.E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Newcastle upon Tyne Univ., UK

Volume

1

fYear

1994

fDate

13-16 Sep 1994

Abstract

Acoustic communications systems have found widespread use in both the offshore industry and marine sciences. For many applications such as remote operated vehicle (ROV) operation it is desirable to transmit video information in the form of camera pictures or side scan sonar images from the ROV to a surface vessel. For shallow water operation where the range is much greater than the water depth the most detrimental problem is that of inter symbol interference due to multipath. The paper presents a novel solution to this problem by using an adaptive beamformer to spatially filter the direct path signal from the multipath. Results obtained during sea trials are presented and demonstrate the effectiveness of the system

Keywords

acoustic signal processing; array signal processing; data communication; differential phase shift keying; digital communication; interference suppression; intersymbol interference; multipath channels; spatial filters; telemetry; underwater sound; ROV operation; adaptive beamformer; adaptive receiving beamformer; camera pictures; intersymbol interference; multipath suppression; path signal; remote operated vehicle operation; shallow water operation; side scan sonar images; subsea acoustic remote communications; video information; Bandwidth; Cameras; Communication industry; Data communication; Interference; Remotely operated vehicles; Sea surface; Service robots; Sonar; Telemetry;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

OCEANS '94. 'Oceans Engineering for Today's Technology and Tomorrow's Preservation.' Proceedings

Conference_Location

Brest

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2056-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OCEANS.1994.363829

Filename

363829