Information surfing with the JHU/APL coherent imager

Christopher R. Ratto; Kara R. Shipley; Nathaniel Beagley; Kevin C. Wolfe

doi:10.1117/12.2176338

21 May 2015 Information surfing with the JHU/APL coherent imager

Christopher R. Ratto, Kara R. Shipley, Nathaniel Beagley, Kevin C. Wolfe

Proceedings Volume 9454, Detection and Sensing of Mines, Explosive Objects, and Obscured Targets XX; 94541F (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2176338
Event: SPIE Defense + Security, 2015, Baltimore, MD, United States

Abstract

The ability to perform remote forensics in situ is an important application of autonomous undersea vehicles (AUVs). Forensics objectives may include remediation of mines and/or unexploded ordnance, as well as monitoring of seafloor infrastructure. At JHU/APL, digital holography is being explored for the potential application to underwater imaging and integration with an AUV. In previous work, a feature-based approach was developed for processing the holographic imagery and performing object recognition. In this work, the results of the image processing method were incorporated into a Bayesian framework for autonomous path planning referred to as information surfing. The framework was derived assuming that the location of the object of interest is known a priori, but the type of object and its pose are unknown. The path-planning algorithm adaptively modifies the trajectory of the sensing platform based on historical performance of object and pose classification. The algorithm is called information surfing because the direction of motion is governed by the local information gradient. Simulation experiments were carried out using holographic imagery collected from submerged objects. The autonomous sensing algorithm was compared to a deterministic sensing CONOPS, and demonstrated improved accuracy and faster convergence in several cases.

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Christopher R. Ratto, Kara R. Shipley, Nathaniel Beagley, and Kevin C. Wolfe "Information surfing with the JHU/APL coherent imager", Proc. SPIE 9454, Detection and Sensing of Mines, Explosive Objects, and Obscured Targets XX, 94541F (21 May 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2176338

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