Analysis of adaptive sampling techniques for underwater vehicles

Authors:
Andres Mora;Colin Ho;Srikanth Saripalli
Affiliations:
School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona University, Tempe, USA 85287-6004;School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona University, Tempe, USA 85287-6004;School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona University, Tempe, USA 85287-6004
Venue:
Autonomous Robots
Year:
2013

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Abstract

A critical problem in planning sampling paths for autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) is correctly balancing two issues. First, obtaining an accurate scalar field estimation and second, efficiently utilizing the stored energy capacity of the sampling vehicle. Adaptive sampling approaches can only provide solutions when real time and a priori environmental data is available. In this paper we present an analysis of adaptive sampling methodologies for AUVs. In particular, we analyze various sampling path strategies including systematic and stratified random patterns within a wide range of sampling densities and their impact in the energy consumption of the vehicle through a cost-evaluation function. Our study demonstrates that a systematic spiral sampling path strategy is optimal for high-variance scalar fields for all sampling densities and low-variance scalar fields when sampling is sparse. In addition, our results show that the random spiral sampling path strategy is found to be optimal for low-variance scalar fields when sampling is dense.