I-Corps: Data communication via the vector components of the acoustic field

该项目小组已经开发了一个通过声粒子速度信道进行高速水下通信的内聚框架。研究了这种信道的传播特性，并为收发器设计设计了新的通信和信号处理解决方案。鉴于传统技术提供的低数据速率以及对快速数据和视频通信的高需求，该团队计划进一步开发该技术以广泛使用。需要改进的水下调制解调器以在水下传感器、深水系泊仪器、自主水下航行器、水面船舶等之间进行通信。该技术的广泛使用具有积极影响海上石油和天然气工业、渔业、预测诸如飓风的自然灾害的环境和海洋监测系统、用于水下建筑物和设施的检查和修理的系统、通过粒子速度信道进行通信的已开发的变革性技术预计将对水下通信系统产生技术影响，几十年来，水下通信系统几乎完全使用声压信道。如果成功，拟议计划的影响可能是水下通信技术在许多不同应用中的重大进步。这将大大提高我们从世界海洋的许多资源中获益的能力。

The project team has developed a cohesive framework for high rate underwater communication via acoustic particle velocity channels. Propagation characteristics of such channels were studied and new communication and signal processing solutions were devised for transceiver design. Given the low data rates offered by the conventional technology and the high demand for fast data and video communication, the team plans to further develop the technology for widespread use. There is a need for improved underwater modems to communicate among underwater sensors, deep-water moored instruments, autonomous underwater vehicles, surface vessels, etc. Widespread use of this technology has the potential to positively impact offshore oil and gas industry, fishing industry, environmental and ocean monitoring systems to predict natural disasters such as hurricanes, systems for inspection and repair of underwater constructions and facilities, ocean exploration, etc. The developed transformative technology to communicate via particle velocity channels is expected to have a technological impact on underwater communication systems, which have almost exclusively used the acoustic pressure channel for decades. The impact of the proposed plan, if successful, could be the significant advancement of the underwater communication technology in a number of different applications. This could result in a major enhancement of our ability to benefit from the many resources that underlay the world's oceans.