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access icon free Tracking with MIMO sonar systems: applications to harbour surveillance

© The Institution of Engineering and Technology
Received 20/02/2016, Accepted 02/07/2016, Revised 29/05/2016, Published 12/07/2016

Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) sonar systems offer new perspectives for area surveillance especially in complex environments where strong multipath and dense clutter can become very challenging. This study proposes a MIMO sonar system based scheme to tackle the difficult problem of harbour surveillance. An emphasis is put on recognition and tracking on low-profile mid-water targets. First, a MIMO simulator which can compute synthetic raw data for any transmitter/ receiver pair in a multipath, cluttered and dynamic environment is presented. The study then proposes two radically different methods for the underwater target tracking problem in complex environment: a digital tracker and an analogue tracker. On the digital side, an implementation of the recently developed hypothesised filter for independent stochastic populations is presented. This filter enables robust multi-object tracking as well as track classification capabilities without the use of heuristics. An analogue filter based on acoustical time reversal techniques is also introduced. This filter directly uses the returned acoustic field from the scene to focus the sound on the expected target position, hence improving the signal-to-noise ratio on the target in complex environments and taking full advantage of the MIMO architecture.

Inspec keywords: signal classification; target tracking; sonar target recognition; object tracking; sonar tracking; tracking filters; clutter; surveillance

Other keywords: MIMO sonar systems; MIMO simulator; independent stochastic populations; underwater target tracking problem; tracking filter; acoustic field; harbour surveillance; analogue filter; robust multiobject tracking; acoustical time reversal techniques; strong multipath clutter; hypothesised filter; dense clutter; transmitter-receiver pair; analogue tracker; low-profile mid-water target tracking; autonomous underwater vehicles; low-profile mid-water target recognition; signal-to-noise ratio; classification capability tracking; multiple-input multiple-output sonar systems; digital tracker

Subjects: Sonar and acoustic radar; Filtering methods in signal processing

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