Pub Date : 2026-04-30Epub Date: 2026-02-19DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2026.124618
Silun Huang, Ruikang Xu, Yunfei Wei, Yihan Shi
Search and rescue (SAR) of deep-sea submersibles is a critical challenge in marine safety, hindered by inaccurate localization, poor prediction, and inefficient search strategies. This study develops an efficient cooperative framework to enhance SAR success rates. An integrated framework is proposed, combining multi-source localization, probabilistic prediction, and intelligent planning. Its core includes three components: (1) A multi-sensor and multi-mode integrated localization model to accurately determine the disabled submersible's initial pose; (2) A Markov Chain Monte Carlo-based probabilistic prediction model simulating the time-varying positional distribution of the submersible under power-loss and complete-failure modes, considering ocean current disturbances; (3) A novel Dynamic-guided Multi-strategy Elite Ant Colony Optimization (DMS-EACO) algorithm considering smoothness to solve the 3D SAR path planning problem. This algorithm improves search efficiency and path smoothness via a Sigmoid decay factor, dynamic guidance mechanism, and turning heuristic function. Moreover, sensitivity analysis evaluates the submersible's dynamic behavior under propulsion failure scenarios. Simulation results show that compared to mainstream optimization algorithms, the proposed algorithm reduces the optimal path length by 19.6% to 77.6% and improves convergence speed by over 54% in two typical failure scenarios, generating significantly smoother trajectories.
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Pub Date : 2026-04-30Epub Date: 2026-02-19DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2026.124666
X. Liu , D. Chen , H. Wu
Ship collision poses a potential risk to bridges crossing navigable waterways. In the present study, the refined finite element (FE) model of a landmark long-span cable-stayed bridge is established, validated and employed to examine its global and local dynamic behaviors under ship-pylon collision. Firstly, the FE model of cable-stayed bridge is explicitly modeled, and material models are validated by simulating single component and existing impact test. Then, a modified mass weighted damping method is proposed to realize the stress initialization of bridge, and its rationality is validated by initialized states. Finally, the bridge dynamic behavior is examined by typical ship-pylon collision scenario with a ship mass of 24024 t and collision velocity of 6 m/s. It indicates that: (i) the cable-stayed bridge escapes from global collapse, while the impacted pylon experiences obvious local damage; (ii) the maximum transverse displacement of pile group foundation reaches 133 mm, which exceeds designed limitations; (iii) the whipping effect of pylon is pronounced with the maximum transverse displacement 355.9 mm reached during free vibration stage; (iv) the girder displacement lead to support failures and varied cable forces; (v) the ship and bridge have absorbed about 95.9 % and 4.1 % of collision energy.
{"title":"Dynamic behavior of long-span cable-stayed bridge under ship-pylon collision","authors":"X. Liu , D. Chen , H. Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.oceaneng.2026.124666","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.oceaneng.2026.124666","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Ship collision poses a potential risk to bridges crossing navigable waterways. In the present study, the refined finite element (FE) model of a landmark long-span cable-stayed bridge is established, validated and employed to examine its global and local dynamic behaviors under ship-pylon collision. Firstly, the FE model of cable-stayed bridge is explicitly modeled, and material models are validated by simulating single component and existing impact test. Then, a modified mass weighted damping method is proposed to realize the stress initialization of bridge, and its rationality is validated by initialized states. Finally, the bridge dynamic behavior is examined by typical ship-pylon collision scenario with a ship mass of 24024 t and collision velocity of 6 m/s. It indicates that: (i) the cable-stayed bridge escapes from global collapse, while the impacted pylon experiences obvious local damage; (ii) the maximum transverse displacement of pile group foundation reaches 133 mm, which exceeds designed limitations; (iii) the whipping effect of pylon is pronounced with the maximum transverse displacement 355.9 mm reached during free vibration stage; (iv) the girder displacement lead to support failures and varied cable forces; (v) the ship and bridge have absorbed about 95.9 % and 4.1 % of collision energy.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19403,"journal":{"name":"Ocean Engineering","volume":"353 ","pages":"Article 124666"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147386705","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-04-30Epub Date: 2026-02-18DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2026.124606
Mohammed Yousri Silaa , Oscar Barambones
Wave energy conversion systems are highly nonlinear and subject to significant uncertainties due to the dynamic marine environment. This paper presents a robust sliding mode control strategy with a quicker power reaching law (SMC-QPRL) for oscillating water column (OWC) systems employing Wells turbines and doubly fed induction generators (DFIGs). To optimize performance, the control parameters are automatically tuned using the whale optimization algorithm (WOA), where the optimization process minimizes the integral of time-weighted absolute error (ITAE) criterion to ensure fast dynamic response and minimal steady-state error. The proposed controller ensures rapid convergence to the sliding surface, eliminates chattering effects, and maintains robustness against external disturbances and parameter uncertainties without requiring prior knowledge of uncertainty bounds. Stability is formally verified using Lyapunov theory. The controller’s effectiveness is validated through comprehensive simulations in MATLAB/Simulink under three distinct operating scenarios: low, high, and irregular pressure drops. Across all cases, the SMC-QPRL outperforms conventional SMC by achieving a 39.64% reduction in RMSE, and over 60% improvement in ISE and ITSE, along with a 12.18% enhancement in ITAE, ensuring smoother control signals and superior dynamic performance. These results highlight the proposed method’s strong potential for enhancing the reliability, efficiency, and grid compatibility of offshore renewable energy systems.
{"title":"Enhanced power conversion in DFIG-based OWC systems via whale-optimized SMC-QPRL","authors":"Mohammed Yousri Silaa , Oscar Barambones","doi":"10.1016/j.oceaneng.2026.124606","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.oceaneng.2026.124606","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Wave energy conversion systems are highly nonlinear and subject to significant uncertainties due to the dynamic marine environment. This paper presents a robust sliding mode control strategy with a quicker power reaching law (SMC-QPRL) for oscillating water column (OWC) systems employing Wells turbines and doubly fed induction generators (DFIGs). To optimize performance, the control parameters are automatically tuned using the whale optimization algorithm (WOA), where the optimization process minimizes the integral of time-weighted absolute error (ITAE) criterion to ensure fast dynamic response and minimal steady-state error. The proposed controller ensures rapid convergence to the sliding surface, eliminates chattering effects, and maintains robustness against external disturbances and parameter uncertainties without requiring prior knowledge of uncertainty bounds. Stability is formally verified using Lyapunov theory. The controller’s effectiveness is validated through comprehensive simulations in MATLAB/Simulink under three distinct operating scenarios: low, high, and irregular pressure drops. Across all cases, the SMC-QPRL outperforms conventional SMC by achieving a 39.64% reduction in RMSE, and over 60% improvement in ISE and ITSE, along with a 12.18% enhancement in ITAE, ensuring smoother control signals and superior dynamic performance. These results highlight the proposed method’s strong potential for enhancing the reliability, efficiency, and grid compatibility of offshore renewable energy systems.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19403,"journal":{"name":"Ocean Engineering","volume":"353 ","pages":"Article 124606"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147386429","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Arctic’s unique climate and dynamic sea-ice environment pose major challenges for ship navigation. To improve trajectory smoothness and collision-avoidance responsiveness in multi-ship path planning with dynamic obstacles, this study proposes a Bayesian-PPO algorithm that integrates Bayesian risk inference with control based on continuous actions. The method incorporates prospective risk prediction and multiple auxiliary rewards to enhance real-time avoidance of dynamic ice floes and static obstacles while accelerating policy convergence. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm achieves collision-avoidance success rates about 12% and 9% higher than PPO and TD3, respectively, and generates smoother trajectories with more stable reward convergence. These results demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of the Bayesian-PPO approach for cooperative multi-ship collision avoidance, offering a practical solution for intelligent navigation in complex maritime environments and supporting future applications using real navigation data and dynamic environmental factors.
{"title":"Multi-Agent obstacle avoidance path planning for the arctic northeast passage","authors":"Qun Gu , Kaihui Zhang , Adan Wu , Rui Zhang , Liuhao Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.oceaneng.2026.124647","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.oceaneng.2026.124647","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Arctic’s unique climate and dynamic sea-ice environment pose major challenges for ship navigation. To improve trajectory smoothness and collision-avoidance responsiveness in multi-ship path planning with dynamic obstacles, this study proposes a Bayesian-PPO algorithm that integrates Bayesian risk inference with control based on continuous actions. The method incorporates prospective risk prediction and multiple auxiliary rewards to enhance real-time avoidance of dynamic ice floes and static obstacles while accelerating policy convergence. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm achieves collision-avoidance success rates about 12% and 9% higher than PPO and TD3, respectively, and generates smoother trajectories with more stable reward convergence. These results demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of the Bayesian-PPO approach for cooperative multi-ship collision avoidance, offering a practical solution for intelligent navigation in complex maritime environments and supporting future applications using real navigation data and dynamic environmental factors.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19403,"journal":{"name":"Ocean Engineering","volume":"353 ","pages":"Article 124647"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147386432","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-04-30Epub Date: 2026-02-19DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2026.124620
Hao Jin, Yuchao Sheng, Chun Shao
Transient impact loads during high-speed water entry pose significant risks to the vehicle structure. This paper presents a nose-cap integrated protective solution using a thin-walled aluminum honeycomb structure. Through Coupled Eulerian-Lagrangian (CEL) simulations, we analyzed the dynamic response of various honeycomb geometries and thickness parameters, and formulated a multi-objective optimization problem for circular aluminum honeycombs with graded wall thickness to simultaneously maximize lightweighting and impact resistance. We developed an innovative surrogate model merging Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) with Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), integrated with NSGA-II to accelerate the optimization process. The optimized design demonstrated significant performance at 200 m/s water entry, achieving reductions of 14.1% in peak acceleration, 52.1% in maximum stress, and 52.2% in mass. These findings offer valuable insights for high-speed water entry impact protection design and introduce an effective data-augmentation approach for optimization with limited samples.
{"title":"GAN-ANN-based optimization of graded honeycomb structure for impact load reduction in water entry","authors":"Hao Jin, Yuchao Sheng, Chun Shao","doi":"10.1016/j.oceaneng.2026.124620","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.oceaneng.2026.124620","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Transient impact loads during high-speed water entry pose significant risks to the vehicle structure. This paper presents a nose-cap integrated protective solution using a thin-walled aluminum honeycomb structure. Through Coupled Eulerian-Lagrangian (CEL) simulations, we analyzed the dynamic response of various honeycomb geometries and thickness parameters, and formulated a multi-objective optimization problem for circular aluminum honeycombs with graded wall thickness to simultaneously maximize lightweighting and impact resistance. We developed an innovative surrogate model merging Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) with Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), integrated with NSGA-II to accelerate the optimization process. The optimized design demonstrated significant performance at 200 m/s water entry, achieving reductions of 14.1% in peak acceleration, 52.1% in maximum stress, and 52.2% in mass. These findings offer valuable insights for high-speed water entry impact protection design and introduce an effective data-augmentation approach for optimization with limited samples.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19403,"journal":{"name":"Ocean Engineering","volume":"353 ","pages":"Article 124620"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147387248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-04-30Epub Date: 2026-02-19DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2026.124741
Jijian Lian , Junwei Yu , Jiale Li , Shunyi Wang , Yaohua Guo , Xiaofeng Dong
The multi-bucket jacket foundation (MBJF), suitable for large-capacity wind turbines, has gradually found practical offshore application. However, exposed bucket tops aggravate local scour, threatening the stability of the foundation. Based on the installation characteristics of submerged bucket foundations, this study proposes a self-deployable flexible protection method (FPM). A sophisticated experimental design enabled high-precision inversion of the bed topography, allowing for systematic investigation of both the flow field and local scour around the MBJF under steady flow. Key parameters (FPM layout, flow intensity, lid elevation) were evaluated for their effects on scour protection efficacy. The results enabled the derivation of a prediction formula for the maximum scour depth under FPM protection, which has an error margin within 20%, and demonstrated that the FPM significantly modifies the surrounding flow field and scour morphology. Maximum scour depth around the foundation decreased from 0.45 to below 0.2 times the bucket height, corresponding to a peak protection efficiency of 74.4%. In practical engineering, fixed FPM deployment maximizes scour mitigation. This research provides valuable theoretical and technical support for addressing local scour in offshore wind turbine foundations.
{"title":"Experimental evaluation of flexible protection for local scour mitigation around multi-bucket jacket foundations","authors":"Jijian Lian , Junwei Yu , Jiale Li , Shunyi Wang , Yaohua Guo , Xiaofeng Dong","doi":"10.1016/j.oceaneng.2026.124741","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.oceaneng.2026.124741","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The multi-bucket jacket foundation (MBJF), suitable for large-capacity wind turbines, has gradually found practical offshore application. However, exposed bucket tops aggravate local scour, threatening the stability of the foundation. Based on the installation characteristics of submerged bucket foundations, this study proposes a self-deployable flexible protection method (FPM). A sophisticated experimental design enabled high-precision inversion of the bed topography, allowing for systematic investigation of both the flow field and local scour around the MBJF under steady flow. Key parameters (FPM layout, flow intensity, lid elevation) were evaluated for their effects on scour protection efficacy. The results enabled the derivation of a prediction formula for the maximum scour depth under FPM protection, which has an error margin within 20%, and demonstrated that the FPM significantly modifies the surrounding flow field and scour morphology. Maximum scour depth around the foundation decreased from 0.45 to below 0.2 times the bucket height, corresponding to a peak protection efficiency of 74.4%. In practical engineering, fixed FPM deployment maximizes scour mitigation. This research provides valuable theoretical and technical support for addressing local scour in offshore wind turbine foundations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19403,"journal":{"name":"Ocean Engineering","volume":"353 ","pages":"Article 124741"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147387249","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-04-30Epub Date: 2026-02-23DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2026.124595
Junnan Zhao , Chunhui Zhou , Ziyuan Bian , Myo Ko Ko Latt , Zhijiang Li
Ship navigation intention refers to the behavioral patterns and objectives of a vessel under specific environmental conditions, determined by navigational rules, dynamic features, and geographic factors. Unlike traditional trajectory analysis, intention recognition provides higher-level semantic information and is vital for intelligent maritime traffic supervision. This paper proposes a dual-driven method integrating data-driven trajectory prediction with knowledge-driven reasoning. First, a four-level behavioral semantic framework and a ship behavior ontology are constructed, with semantic information inferred via Semantic Web Rule Language (SWRL) rules. Second, a Transformer–Gated Recurrent Unit (T-GRU) model with semantic labels is developed to capture temporal dependencies and improve motion trend prediction. By mapping navigation intentions within the semantic framework and combining predictive dynamics with ontology-based reasoning, inland ship intentions are identified. Case studies demonstrate the method's effectiveness, showing accurate recognition of normal and special operation intentions. The results provide technical support for ship monitoring and risk prevention, enhancing proactive perception and early warning in maritime traffic management.
{"title":"A dual-driven method for ship navigation intention recognition: Integrating trajectory prediction and knowledge reasoning","authors":"Junnan Zhao , Chunhui Zhou , Ziyuan Bian , Myo Ko Ko Latt , Zhijiang Li","doi":"10.1016/j.oceaneng.2026.124595","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.oceaneng.2026.124595","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Ship navigation intention refers to the behavioral patterns and objectives of a vessel under specific environmental conditions, determined by navigational rules, dynamic features, and geographic factors. Unlike traditional trajectory analysis, intention recognition provides higher-level semantic information and is vital for intelligent maritime traffic supervision. This paper proposes a dual-driven method integrating data-driven trajectory prediction with knowledge-driven reasoning. First, a four-level behavioral semantic framework and a ship behavior ontology are constructed, with semantic information inferred via Semantic Web Rule Language (SWRL) rules. Second, a Transformer–Gated Recurrent Unit (T-GRU) model with semantic labels is developed to capture temporal dependencies and improve motion trend prediction. By mapping navigation intentions within the semantic framework and combining predictive dynamics with ontology-based reasoning, inland ship intentions are identified. Case studies demonstrate the method's effectiveness, showing accurate recognition of normal and special operation intentions. The results provide technical support for ship monitoring and risk prevention, enhancing proactive perception and early warning in maritime traffic management.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19403,"journal":{"name":"Ocean Engineering","volume":"353 ","pages":"Article 124595"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147386608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-04-30Epub Date: 2026-02-18DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2026.124573
Hossein Ameri, Pan Hu, Ming Zhao, Chin Leo
This study experimentally investigated the influence of spudcan geometry on local scour development through steady-current tests on models with conical angles (α) ranging from 60° to 180° and diameters (D) between 50 and 150 mm, under both loaded and unloaded conditions. Additional factors included model material (aluminium versus acrylic), tip geometry, and the time-dependent evolution of bearing area during scour. The results provide new insights into scour development around spudcans, which represent low–aspect–ratio footings on the seabed. Applied vertical load was found to substantially accelerate scour, with strong horseshoe vortices forming at the spudcan shoulder and producing more than twice the scour depth observed in unloaded cases. Model material and tip geometry exerted negligible influence, validating the use of transparent acrylic models without tips for visualisation studies. For α = 60° and 150°, equilibrium upstream scour depth (Sc) was reached within approximately 6 h on the experimental scales, irrespective of conical angle. Increasing the diameter raised the absolute scour depth, while the normalised depth (Sc/D) remained nearly constant, demonstrating geometric similarity. Sharper spudcans (lower α) generated significantly deeper scour, with Sc nearly doubling from blunt to sharp configurations, whereas the flat-base (α = 180°) produced minimal scour due to distributed flow resistance. Downstream scour (Sf/D) showed no systematic dependence on α, reflecting the identical top-shoulder geometry governing wake vortices. The bearing area ratio (ζ) exhibited a two-phase trend: an initial rapid reduction to around 0.20, followed by recovery toward unity as scour cavities stabilised and the spudcan made approximately full contact with the seabed. Sharper spudcans displayed faster loss and earlier recovery, while diameter exerted no significant influence on the evolution of ζ.
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Pub Date : 2026-04-30Epub Date: 2026-02-21DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2026.124781
Yuxing Li, Rui Zhang
Link dispersion entropy and its improved methods can effectively quantify the regularity and complexity of time series. However, they have two inherent limitations: (1) the patterns only focus on the amplitude information of time series, failing to take into account the differences between adjacent amplitudes simultaneously; (2) the state transition matrix is weighted in an equal-weight manner, ignoring the non-uniformity of weight allocation. To address these limitations, the dual-amplitude weighted transition dispersion entropy (DWTDE) is proposed in this paper. This method constructs a dual-amplitude coding pattern to simultaneously incorporate both amplitude information and adjacent differential information, and implements similarity-based weighting of the state transition matrix to enhance the rationality and pertinence of weight allocation. Furthermore, its multi-scale version, multi-scale DWTDE (MDWTDE), for characterizing the complexity of complex signals across different time scales. Simulation experiments demonstrate that DWTDE can accurately capture the dynamic changes of signals and exhibits superior robustness against noise. Two actual experiments based on ship-radiated noise signals (SRS) further verify that MDWTDE demonstrates superior feature extraction capability compared with the other four entropy-based methods.
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Pub Date : 2026-04-30Epub Date: 2026-02-18DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2026.124732
Hoseok Sul , Taek Lyul Song , Jee Woong Choi
In passive sonar systems, target motion analysis (TMA) traditionally relies on bearing-angle measurements from horizontal line arrays, a technique commonly referred to as bearing-only target motion analysis (BOTMA). This paper presents an alternative TMA approach that incorporates range measurements obtained from two vertical line arrays (VLAs), here termed array invariant-based range-only target motion analysis (AI-ROTMA). The proposed method employs an extended Kalman filter to enhance target tracking accuracy, integrating source-receiver ranges derived from the array invariant method with the two-point localization results. The performance of AI-ROTMA was evaluated using ship-radiated noise data from R/V Onnuri, collected using two VLAs during the Shallow Water Acoustic Variability Experiment (SAVEX-15). Compared with the two-point localization method that uses only range measurements, AI-ROTMA provided significantly more reliable estimates of both range and velocity. These results highlight the potential of integrating array-invariant techniques into passive sonar TMA for enhanced tracking performance in realistic ocean environments.
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