Chapter 7. Analysis of modern underwater navigation and design capabilities of underwater cargo vessels
Keywords:
underwater space, autonomous underwater vehicle, hydroacoustic systems, navigation, cargo transportation, behavioral architecture, hierarchical architecture
Synopsis
Some issues of increasing the energy efficiency of ships by improving navigation methods
The aim of the study is to analyze the advantages and disadvantages of modern navigation methods for autonomous underwater vehicles and their groups, including the use of neural networks, and to determine their development prospects; as well as to enhance the effectiveness of deep-sea surveying and the execution of various underwater operations through the use of advanced mathematical support for autonomous underwater vehicles; the development of underwater space in the interests of maritime freight transport as such, which increases the carrying capacity of existing sea transport routes, increases energy efficiency and reduces the risks of freight transport, provided there is no negative impact on the movement of the vehicle by wind, surface waves and drift currents.
The challenges of developing a control system for autonomous underwater vehicles have been examined. A new architecture of mathematical support for the control system of autonomous underwater vehicles is proposed, which incorporates both hierarchical and behavior-based control structures. This significantly expands the capabilities of these vehicles, enabling them to solve tasks of various classes under the constraints of onboard computational network resources.
Within the proposed architecture, a behavior-based approach is applied at different levels of the functional hierarchical control system. A methodology is substantiated for constructing a tactical-level agent library based on the functional decomposition of the target task class. The structure of an agent has been developed and studied; it includes a local environmental model, tools for planning actions based on this model, and mechanisms for analyzing the utilized information to assess the agent’s operational effectiveness.
Examined the development of underwater space in the interests of maritime freight transport as such, which increases the carrying capacity of existing sea transport routes, increases energy efficiency and reduces the risks of freight transport, provided there is no negative impact on the movement of the vehicle by wind, surface waves and drift currents. It is proposed to create an extensive system of cargo transportation in the underwater space as an alternative to conventional shipping. It is established that underwater data transmission based on lasers and radio waves is effective for data transmission only in conditions where the underwater transport vessel moves in the near-surface layer of the ocean.
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