Design of Deep Learning Acoustic Sonar Receiver with Temporal/ Spatial Underwater Channel Feature Extraction Capability

Chih-Ta Yen; Un-Hung Chen

doi:10.46604/ijeti.2023.13057

Authors

Chih-Ta Yen Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan, ROC
Un-Hung Chen Department of Electrical Engineering, National Formosa University, Yunlin, Taiwan, ROC

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46604/ijeti.2023.13057

Keywords:

underwater acoustic, deep learning, frequency-shift keying (FSK), feature extraction, virtual time reversal mirror (VTRM)

Abstract

In this study, deep learning network technology is employed to solve the problem of rapid changes in underwater channels. The modulation techniques employed are frequency-shift keying (FSK) and the BELLHOP module of MATLAB; they are used to create water with multipath, Doppler shifts, and additive Gaussian white noise such that underwater acoustic receiving signals simulating the actual ocean environment can be obtained. The southwest coastal area of Taiwan is simulated in the manuscript. The results reveal that optimizing the environment by using the virtual time reversal mirror (VTRM) technique can generally mitigate the bit error rates (BERs) of the deep learning network’s model receiver and traditional demodulation receiver. Lastly, seven deep learning networks are deployed to demodulate the FSK signals, and these approaches are compared with traditional demodulation techniques to determine the deep learning network techniques that are most suitable for marine environments.

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