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This paper touches a problem of development of effective technology of underwater positioning, which allows control position of more than one object i.e. submarines, remotely operated underwater robots or divers. The paper presents a solution which bases on the use of a modulated ultrasound waveform instead of bunch of square-shaped pulses utilized by a traditional positioning systems. The proposed system can be seen as smart because it not only solves a positioning problem but also delivers communication link between a supervising ship and remotely controlled objects. Some preliminary results of experiments with real underwater robots are also presented. The resultant relative positional accuracy was about 1 m and the data rate can be estimated about 1 kb/s.
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Szlachetko, B., Lower, M. (2016). Smart Underwater Positioning System and Simultaneous Communication. In: Nguyen, N., Iliadis, L., Manolopoulos, Y., Trawiński, B. (eds) Computational Collective Intelligence. ICCCI 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9876. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45246-3_15
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