Low-power low-cost acoustic underwater modem

Start Page
59
End Page
65
Citation
In: B. Zerr et al. Quantitative Monitoring of the Underwater Environment. Ocean Engineering & Oceanography, vol 6. Springer, Cham. pp 59–65 (2016)
Contribution to Conference
International Conference on Underwater Environment, MOQESM 2014  
Publisher DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-32107-3_6
Publisher
Springer
Recent advances in electronics and robotics enable automated and potentially unsupervised environmental underwater inshore monitoring with swarms of small, low-power, autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV). To enable flexible and self-organizing operation, underwater communication is required. However, existing solutions aim at long-distance communication, leading to high unit cost, high power consumption, and large dimensions; hence rendering their application in robot swarms practically and economically infeasible. In this paper, we present our ongoing development of a low-power low-cost underwater modem for acoustic communication. It features a low unit cost, small form factor, and low power consumption. It is flexible, robust, and achieves a suitably high data rate and low transmission delay for swarm coordination tasks.
DDC Class
004: Informatik
530: Physik
600: Technik
620: Ingenieurwissenschaften