Abstract
In this paper, we propose an improved three-dimensional underwater electric field-based target localization method. This method combines the subspace scanning algorithm and the meta evolutionary programming (meta-EP) particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm. The subspace scanning algorithm is applied as the evaluation function of the electric field-based underwater target locating problem. The meta-EP PSO method is used to select M elite particles by the q-tournament selection method, which could effectively reduce the computational complexity of the three-dimensional underwater target localization. Moreover, the proposed meta-EP PSO optimization algorithm can avoid subspace scanning trapping into local minima. We also analyze the positioning performance of the uniform circular and cross-shaped electrodes arrays by using the subspace scanning algorithm combined with meta–EP PSO. According to the simulation, the calculation amount of the proposed algorithm is greatly reduced. Moreover, the positioning accuracy is effectively improved without changing the positioning accuracy and search speed.
Highlights
Underwater target detection and estimation has a wide range of applications in marine salvage, marine exploration research, inspection of underwater facilities, underwater navigation and localization, and construction of an underwater environment [1,2,3,4]
In order to study the computation of the meta evolutionary programming (meta-EP) particle swarm optimization (PSO) further, we terminated the algorithm and recorded the number of iterations of the meta-EP PSO algorithm when the positioning error was less than 1 cm
We study the target locating in the underwater environment based on the electric field
Summary
Underwater target detection and estimation has a wide range of applications in marine salvage, marine exploration research, inspection of underwater facilities, underwater navigation and localization, and construction of an underwater environment [1,2,3,4]. In [20,22], the locating methods based on the power path loss model of an electromagnetic wave propagating through seawater were proposed. The locating methods based on the quasistatic electric field have been widely studied [1,7,23,24], because they have lower path losses in seawater compared to the methods based on the high-frequency electromagnetic signals. The electric sense locating methods based on bionics show good performance in underwater avoidance, docking, and close-range object shape estimation in dark and turbid environments. The far-field theory is not suitable for underwater target locating because high-frequency radiation waves cannot be transferred to a long distance. The simulation results show that the proposed meta-EP particle swarm optimization (PSO) hybrid algorithm for searching an optimal solution to the localization algorithm has strong competitiveness in terms of accuracy and convergence speed
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