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  • Open Access
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Research on a 2D TERCOM Method Based on an Improved Osprey Optimization Algorithm

  • Tao Sui,
  • Dechen Sun,
  • Zhishuo Ji,
  • Jingqi Li and
  • Xiuzhi Liu

To address the challenges of time-dependent error divergence in Strapdown Inertial Navigation Systems (SINS) and the insufficient accuracy of traditional terrain matching algorithms in feature-sparse flat terrain environments, this paper proposes an...

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  • Open Access
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28 Pages

Analysis and Intelligent Processing of the Underwater Navigation Adaptability of Gravity Reference Maps

  • Mingda Ouyang,
  • Zhenhe Zhai,
  • Xianghua Niu,
  • Yongxing Zhu,
  • Bin Guan and
  • He Huang

19 August 2026

Gravity-matching navigation is one of the important means for the covert navigation of underwater vehicles. The production and application of gravity reference maps as core key technologies have a very significant impact on the accuracy of underwater...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,217 Views
20 Pages

A Novel Algorithm for Enhancing Terrain-Aided Navigation in Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

  • Dan Wang,
  • Liqiang Liu,
  • Yueyang Ben,
  • Liang Cao and
  • Zhongge Dong

2 September 2024

The position error in an inertial navigation system (INS) for autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) increases over time. Terrain-aided navigation can assist in correcting these INS position errors. To enhance the matching accuracy under large initial...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,024 Views
17 Pages

28 April 2022

This paper mainly studies the improvement of the efficiency and out-of-domain reliability of gravity matching navigation for underwater vehicles. To overcome the traversal low-efficiency problem of the traditional terrain contour matching (TERCOM) al...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,487 Views
20 Pages

The navigation and positioning of underwater vehicles is challenging work, especially when there is already a large initial position error, and there is an increasing concern about how to quickly correct the position error. To enhance positioning acc...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,736 Views
24 Pages

15 December 2022

For inertial navigation systems (INS), as one of the major methods for underwater navigation, errors diverge over time. With the development of geophysical navigation technology, gravity navigation has become an effective method of navigation. Signif...

(This article belongs to the Section Navigation and Positioning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,012 Views
21 Pages

22 June 2025

In this study, we improve the matching accuracy of underwater gravity-matching navigation and use this method to further analyze the confidence of the matching accuracy. An interquartile range (IQR)-matching approach based on Bayesian estimation, ref...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,153 Views
18 Pages

16 November 2021

In this study, we improve the matching accuracy of underwater gravity matching navigation. Firstly, the Iterative Optimal Annulus Point (IOAP) method with a novel grid topology is proposed for breaking through the inherent grid structure limit of the...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)