In-Air Imaging Sonar Sensor Network with Real-Time Processing Using GPUs
For autonomous navigation and robotic applications, sensing the environment correctly is crucial. Many sensing modalities for this purpose exist. In recent years, one such modality that is being used is in-air imaging sonar. It is ideal in complex environments with rough conditions such as dust or fog. However, like with most sensing modalities, to sense the full environment around the mobile platform, multiple such sensors are needed to capture the full 360-degree range. Currently the processing algorithms used to create this data are insufficient to do so for multiple sensors at a reasonably fast update rate. Furthermore, a flexible and robust framework is needed to easily implement multiple imaging sonar sensors into any setup and serve multiple application types for the data. In this paper we present a sensor network framework designed for this novel sensing modality. Furthermore, an implementation of the processing algorithm on a Graphics Processing Unit is proposed to potentially decrease the computing time to allow for real-time processing of one or more imaging sonar sensors at a sufficiently high update rate.
Code (0)
등록된 구현이 없습니다.
Tasks
Autonomous NavigationSimilar Papers 제목 키워드 기반
Single View Seafloor Recovery from Imaging Sonar via Differentiable Rendering
Sonar is often the only modality suitable for high-resolution imaging underwater due to light attenuation and turbidity. Forward-looking imaging sonar provides measurements over range and horizontal angle but collapses v…
ISOPoT: Imaging Sonar Odometry by Point Tracking
Reliable navigation in underwater environments remains a key challenge in marine robotics. In such scenarios, forward-looking sonars are a natural choice for long-range perception, offering wide coverage even in turbid, …
Keypoint DetectionPoint TrackingSONIC: Sonar Image Correspondence using Pose Supervised Learning for Imaging Sonars
In this paper, we address the challenging problem of data association for underwater SLAM through a novel method for sonar image correspondence using learned features. We introduce SONIC (SONar Image Correspondence), a p…
SHRUMS: Sensor Hallucination for Real-time Underwater Motion Planning with a Compact 3D Sonar
Autonomous navigation in 3D is a fundamental problem for autonomy. Despite major advancements in terrestrial and aerial settings due to improved range sensors including LiDAR, compact sensors with similar capabilities fo…
Motion PlanningSonarSplat: Novel View Synthesis of Imaging Sonar via Gaussian Splatting
In this paper, we present SonarSplat, a novel Gaussian splatting framework for imaging sonar that demonstrates realistic novel view synthesis and models acoustic streaking phenomena. Our method represents the scene as a …
3D ReconstructionImage GenerationNovel View Synthesis