A Bionic Data-driven Approach for Long-distance Underwater Navigation with Anomaly Resistance
Abstract: Various animals exhibit accurate navigation using environment cues. The Earth's magnetic field has been proved a reliable information source in long-distance fauna migration. Inspired by animal navigation, this work proposes a bionic and data-driven approach for long-distance underwater navigation. The proposed approach uses measured geomagnetic data for the navigation, and requires no GPS systems or geographical maps. Particularly, we construct and train a Temporal Attention-based Long Short-Term Memory (TA-LSTM) network to predict the heading angle during the navigation. To mitigate the impact of geomagnetic anomalies, we develop the mechanism to detect and quantify the anomalies based on Maximum Likelihood Estimation. We integrate the developed mechanism with the TA-LSTM, and calibrate the predicted heading angles to gain resistance against geomagnetic anomalies. Using the retrieved data from the WMM model, we conduct numerical simulations with diversified navigation conditions to test our approach. The simulation results demonstrate a resilience navigation against geomagnetic anomalies by our approach, along with precision and stability of the underwater navigation in single and multiple destination missions.
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