NETSIM: A Realtime Virtual Ocean Hardware-in-the-loop Acoustic Modem Network Simulator
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Schneider, Toby; Schmidt, Henrik
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This paper presents netsim, a combined software/hardware system for performing realtime realistic operation of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) with acoustic modem telemetry in a virtual ocean environment. The design of the system is flexible to the choice of physical link hardware, allowing for the system to be tested against existing and new modems. Additionally, the virtual ocean channel simulator is designed to perform in real time by coupling less frequent asynchronous queries to high-fidelity models of the ocean environment and acoustic propagation with frequent pertubation-based updates for the exact position of the simulated AUVs. The results demonstrate the performance of this system using the WHOI Micro-Modem 2 hardware in the virtual ocean environment of the Arctic Beaufort Sea around 73 degrees latitude. The acoustic environment in this area has changed dramatically in recent years due to the changing climate.
Date issued
2018-10Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical EngineeringJournal
Fourth Underwater Communications and Networking Conference
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
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Schneider, Toby and Henrik Schmidt. "NETSIM: A Realtime Virtual Ocean Hardware-in-the-loop Acoustic Modem Network Simulator." Fourth Underwater Communications and Networking Conference, August 2018, Lerici, Italy, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, October 2018. © 2018 IEEE
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9781538664421