Underwater Navigation Systems detailed syllabus for Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering (ETE) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the ETE students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering 6th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit ETE 6th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-V scheme and its subjects refer to ETE Professional Elective-V syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of underwater navigation systems is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
BASICS OF UNDERWATER COMMUNICATION
Introduction to underwater acoustics, Understanding Thermoclines in Ocean Waters, subsea communication sensors, Instruments and applications, Sound propagation in the ocean – Sound Velocity Profiles (SVP) in the deep water and shallow water; Sound attenuation in the sea -absorption, scattering, transmission loss, reverberation, Snell’s law, target strength; Laser communication and limitations.
Unit II
UNDERWATER NAVIGATION & ITS AIDING SENSOR AND DEVICES
Different types of navigational sensors, Accelerometers, Fiber Optic Gyroscopes (FOGs), Ring Laser Gyroscope (RLG) types and Working principles, and their applications, Doppler Velocity Log, Error sources in subsea navigation, Calibration overview for subsea navigation. Attitude Heading and Reference Systems (AHRS) & IMU
Unit III
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Unit IV
SUBSEA VEHICLE NAVIGATION
Subsea navigation, Uses of subsea navigation, challenges of subsea navigation. Basics of underwater navigation, Types of underwater Navigations, Aided navigational systems, Inertial Navigational systems. role of dead-reckoning navigation in subsea navigation, Kalman filters (XKF) and Invariant extended Kalman filters for navigation.
Unit V
CASE STUDY
- Tethered vehicle deployment guidelines and preparedness.
- AUV /ROV based search operation requirements and planning.
- Tethered crawling vehicle sensors, data acquisition and maneuvering.
- Acoustic positioning system transponder deployment and recovery
- Aided and unaided navigation system study.
- Understand the basic tools needed to effectively develop software for robotic platforms in a group environment, and resolve conflicts and adhere to group goals in the software cycle.
Course Outcomes:
On successful completion of this course, the student will be able
- To know about the Underwater Navigation System
- To know about the INS and its aiding sensor
- To know about the challenges involved in underwater navigation
- To study about how navigation system is integrated with manned and unmanned underwater vehicles
- To know about underwater positioning system
Text Books:
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Reference Books:
- Electronic and Acoustic Navigation systems for Maritime Studies by Norvald Kjerstad
- Guidance & Control of Ocean Vehicles by TT Fossen
- Dynamic Positioning of Offshore Vessels. By Morgan, M.
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