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

该项目团队已经开发了一个通过声粒子速度通道进行高速率水下通信的凝聚力框架。研究了这些信道的传播特性，并为收发信机的设计提出了新的通信和信号处理解决方案。鉴于传统技术提供的数据速率较低，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，以便广泛使用。需要改进的水下调制解调器用于水下传感器、深水系泊仪器、自主潜水器、水面船只等之间的通信。这项技术的广泛使用可能会对近海石油和天然气工业、渔业、环境和海洋监测系统产生积极影响，如预测飓风等自然灾害、水下建筑物和设施的检查和维修系统、海洋勘探等等。拟议计划的影响如果成功，可能是水下通信技术在许多不同应用方面的重大进步。这可能会大大提高我们从世界海洋之下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.