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    • 专利摘要:
    The system (100) for positioning a submarine device (105, 110, 115, 120) comprises: - at least two surface transponders (125, 130, 135) comprising a radio signal receiver (160) by a geolocation system (200), - each surface transponder comprising: - means (180) for estimating at least one pseudo-radio distance, - a fixation (185) to a float and - a means (140) ) of information communication representative of the radio pseudo-distances and - an underwater acoustic transmitter (140), - the underwater device comprising: - means (145) for receiving information representative of the pseudo-radio distances, an acoustic signal receiver (145), a means (150) for determining one or more acoustic pseudo-distances between at least two underwater acoustic transmitters and the underwater device and a means (155) for calculating the position of the device in a terrestrial reference system centered on one of the tr surface ansponders;
    公开号:FR3052436A1
    申请号:FR1655306
    申请日:2016-06-09
    公开日:2017-12-15
    发明作者:Jean-Marie Codol
    申请人:Chanzy Moira；
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    专利说明:

    TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION
    The present invention relates to a device and a method for positioning a submarine device. It applies, in particular, to the location of divers or drones under the surface of the sea.
    STATE OF THE ART Determining the position of divers in an expanse of fresh or marine water represents a technical challenge because of the obstacles that these environments represent for the transmission of electromagnetic waves.
    The consequences of this positioning problem may be the loss of a diver who has lost his way with respect to a group of diver or relative to the transport boat of the diver or divers. On the other hand, the diver must be able to reach a dive site as quickly as possible a dive site, which implies to indicate the position of this place to the diver.
    We know the principle of GPS (for "Global Positioning System", translated by global positioning system), in which a plurality of satellites emit electromagnetic signals picked up by a terrestrial receiver, this receiver determining its position in the satellite repository by calculating the distances separating it from each satellite. The position of the satellites being otherwise known, it is possible to determine the position of the receiver in the terrestrial frame.
    However, in practice, the transmission of the signals emitted by the satellites through the ionosphere involves a distortion of the signals resulting in a positioning error of up to ten meters.
    To compensate for this effect, the so-called differential GPS systems implement, at ground level, a reference receiving station which, like the receiver, calculates the distances to each satellite. These calculated distances are then transmitted to the receiver which calculates its position relative to the reference receiving station, thereby neglecting the impact of the ionospheric delay. The positioning error is then of the order of one meter.
    In the field of locating underwater devices, systems are known using a plurality of buoys provided with a GPS position sensor and an underwater acoustic signal transmitter transmitting the position calculated by this buoy.
    However, in these systems, each buoy has a positioning error of the order of ten meters, and transmits this error to the subsea device with an additional error due to the transmission of subsea signals. Thus, the positioning accuracy determined with these systems is low.
    More advanced systems are known which implement the principle of operation of the differential GPS, in which one of the buoys is considered as a reference receiving station. These systems nevertheless require the presence of aerial radio connecting the buoys so that the reference buoy transmits its positioning to the other buoys. In addition, the reference buoy must be chosen before the start of the process and the architecture of the system becomes more complex with the number of surface buoys.
    In other current systems, such as those described in US Pat. No. 8,654,610: a float positioned on the surface of the body of water determines its position as a function of a radio frequency signal received, this float is connected to a network of transmitters positioned on a rigid structure immersed in the body of water, each transmitter transmitting the position information of the float according to a common clock by sound signals, - a receiver of the emitted sound signals determines its position from position information transmitted by each transmitter and by measuring a clock shift of each signal, identical, received.
    These systems have several disadvantages: - the transport of a rigid structure on the boat reduces the space on board, - the transmission of a positioning information involves the emission of messages long in the duration and therefore likely to be wrong or not to reach the receiver, - the float is often unique, which induces a weak line of sight, limiting the accuracy of positioning, - when the system comprises several floats, these floats have a relative positioning accuracy of each meter float, which limits the overall accuracy of the system.
    OBJECT OF THE INVENTION
    The present invention aims to remedy all or part of these disadvantages. For this purpose, according to a first aspect, the present invention aims at a system for positioning an underwater device, which comprises: at least two surface transponders, each surface transponder comprising a radio signal receiver emitted by at least two satellite signal sources of a geolocation system, - each surface transponder comprising: - means for estimating at least one pseudo-radio distance between the surface transponder and at least two signal sources of the geolocation system a fixation to a float configured to present zero buoyancy at a dedicated depth and a means of communicating information representative of the pseudo-radio distances to the underwater device, and a submarine acoustic transmitter synchronized to the time of the geolocation system configured to transmit an acoustic signal to the underwater device, - the underwater device c omportant: - means for receiving information representative of radio pseudodistances transmitted by at least two surface transponders, - an acoustic signal receiver configured to receive the acoustic signals emitted by at least two surface transponders, one or more acoustic pseudo-distances between at least two underwater acoustic transmitters and the subsea device and a means for calculating the position of the device in a terrestrial frame of reference centered on one of the surface transponders, the means calculating the position comprising a calculation unit executing a probabilistic estimation process carrying out this estimation using at least the following measures: a selection of the information representative of the radio pseudoranges received by the reception means, a selection of pseudo-acoustic distances determined by the determination means.
    Thanks to these provisions, no reference buoy is necessary, and the architecture of the system is not complicated with the addition of surface transponder. In this system, the calculation of the transponder positioning is performed directly at the subsea device, which eliminates the positioning errors due to ionospheric effects.
    In embodiments, at least one underwater acoustic transmitter is synchronized to an internal clock of the radio receiver of the geolocation system.
    These embodiments make it possible to reproduce the Doppler effect of the satellite signals in the case of GPS. The Doppler effect varies the frequency of the signals randomly, depending on the movement of the satellites. Altering the acoustic source according to the internal clock of the GPS receiver makes it possible to operate the location system with frequencies considered identical but randomly altered through the dynamic clock of the internal clock of the GPS receiver.
    In embodiments, the acoustic transmitter and the communication means are merged, the acoustic transmitter communicating information representative of the pseudo-radio distances to the subsea device.
    These embodiments make it possible to limit the number of means used to produce the system.
    In embodiments, the receiver and the receiving means of a subsea device are combined, the receiver receiving information representative of the pseudo-radio distances emitted by at least two surface transponders.
    In embodiments: each emitter of a surface transponder acoustically emits a linear combination of several periodic signals on several channels due to a channel for a pseudo-distance to be transmitted, each channel being either a signal d time clock of the geolocation system, ie the representation of one of the radio pseudo-distances whose information is to be transmitted, each periodic signal being temporally shifted according to the value of the radio pseudo-distance to be transmitted and the acoustic receiver reconstructs the information representative of the pseudo-radio distances, by comparing the arrival times of the different acoustic signals on the different acoustic channels.
    These embodiments make it possible to transmit the pseudo-distance information without this information being binarized. The transmission of information is achieved by the adaptation of a parameter of the transmission.
    In embodiments, at least one surface transponder has at least two underwater acoustic transmitters.
    These embodiments allow the system to operate with a single transponder.
    In embodiments, the system that is the subject of the present invention comprises a structure for fixing the at least two so-called underwater acoustic emitters, the surface transponder comprising means for determining the position of these underwater acoustic emitters in the terrestrial reference system relative to the receiver of the signals emitted by the satellite sources, and a calculation means implementing the following operations: a measurement of theoretical pseudo-radio range values simulating an identical positioning of the radio receiver and the underwater acoustic transmitters and a control transmission transmission of theoretical measurements of pseudo-radio range values by each transmitter.
    These embodiments allow the system to operate with a single transponder.
    In embodiments, at least one surface transponder includes means for determining a position with respect to the geolocation system, the transmitter transmitting information representative of the determined position to the underwater device, the calculating means the subsea device being configured to calculate a position with respect to the geolocation system repository.
    In embodiments, the system that is the subject of the present invention comprises at least two subsea devices.
    In embodiments, at least one surface transponder comprises a communication means configured to receive, from at least one "main" submarine device, the position of one or more underwater devices, and to retransmit this information representative of the position of one or more subsea devices to at least one second subsea device, the so-called "main" subsea devices being configured to transmit information representative of the position of at least one underwater device to at least one surface transponder.
    In embodiments, at least one subsea device comprises means for communicating information representative of the computed position to at least one second subsea device called "main".
    In embodiments, at least one subsea device includes means for displaying positioning information of at least one underwater device.
    In embodiments, the system that is the subject of the present invention comprises means for displaying, positioned above the surface, information representative of the position of one or more subsea devices.
    In embodiments, at least one underwater device comprises at least one additional sensor among: - a depth sensor, - an inertial unit and - a magnetometer, the means for calculating the position of the device comprising a calculation unit performing a probabilistic estimation process performing this estimation using at least the following measures: a selection of the information representative of the pseudo-radio distances received by the reception means, a selection of pseudo-acoustic distances determined by the means determination and - a selection of measurements from at least one said additional sensor. In embodiments, at least one device is embedded in a bracelet.
    According to a second aspect, the present invention relates to a method for positioning an underwater device, characterized in that it comprises: a step of receiving, by at least two surface transponders, radio signals emitted by at least two satellite signal sources of a geolocation system; - a step of estimating at least one pseudo-radio distance between the surface transponder and at least two signal sources of the geolocation system; a transponder with a float configured to have zero buoyancy at a dedicated depth and - a step of communicating, by a transponder, information representative of the pseudo-radio distances to the underwater device, - an acoustic emission step underwater, by a transponder, time-synchronized geolocation system configured to transmit an acoustic signal to the sub-husband device n, - a step of receiving information, by means of receiving means of the subsea device, representative of the pseudo-radio distances emitted by at least two surface transponders, - a step of receiving acoustic signals, by a receiver of the subsea device, acoustic signals emitted by at least two surface transponders, - a step of determining one or more acoustic pseudo-distances between at least two underwater acoustic transmitters of surface transponders and the underwater device and a step of calculating the position of the device in a terrestrial frame centered on one of the surface transponders, the position calculating means comprising a calculation unit executing a probabilistic estimation process carrying out this estimation at the at least the following measures: - a selection of the information representative of the pseudo-radio distances received by the reception means, - u selecting acoustic pseudo-distances determined by the determining means.
    Since the aims, advantages and particular characteristics of the method which are the subject of the present invention being similar to those of the device which is the subject of the present invention, they are not recalled here.
    BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE FIGURES Other particular advantages, aims and characteristics of the invention will emerge from the following nonlimiting description of at least one particular embodiment of the system and method that are the subject of the present invention, with reference to the accompanying drawings. , in which: - Figure 1 shows schematically a first particular embodiment of the device object of the present invention and - Figure 2 shows schematically and in the form of a logic diagram, a particular sequence of steps of the object process of the present invention.
    DESCRIPTION OF EXAMPLES OF EMBODIMENT OF THE INVENTION
    This description is given in a nonlimiting manner, each feature of an embodiment being able to be combined with any other feature of any other embodiment in an advantageous manner.
    It is already noted that the figures are not to scale.
    FIG. 1, which is not to scale, shows a schematic view of an embodiment of the system 100 which is the subject of the present invention. This system 100 for positioning a device, 105, 110, 115 and / or 120, submarine, comprises: at least two transponders, 125, 130 and / or 135, of surface, each surface transponder comprising a receiver 160 of radio signals emitted by at least two sources, 165, 170 and / or 175, signal satellites of a geolocation system 200, - each surface transponder comprising: a means 180 for estimating at least one pseudo radio distance between the surface transponder and at least two signal sources of the geolocation system, a fastener 185 to a float configured to present zero buoyancy at a dedicated depth and a means 140 for communicating information representative of the pseudo radio transmissions to the subsea device, and a time-synchronized underwater acoustic transmitter 140 of the geolocation system configured to transmit an acoustic signal to the underwater device, the subsea device comprising: a means 145 for receiving information representative of radio pseudodistances transmitted by at least two surface transponders; an acoustic signal receiver 145 configured to receive the acoustic signals emitted by at least two surface transponders a means 150 for determining one or more acoustic pseudo-distances between at least two underwater acoustic transmitters and the subsea device and a means 155 for calculating the position of the device in a terrestrial reference system centered on the one of the surface transponders, the position calculating means comprising a calculation unit executing a probabilistic estimation process carrying out this estimation using at least the following measures: a selection of the information representative of the radio pseudoranges received by the reception means; a selection of pseudo-acoustic distances determined by the yen of determination.
    Each transponder, 125, 130 and 135, is, for example, an electronic circuit mounted on a buoy or attached to a floating structure or to a boat.
    The fastener 185 may be of any type known to those skilled in the art, such as fastening by nailing, screwing, clipping or binding.
    Each signal receiver 160 is, for example, an antenna configured to receive electromagnetic signals emitted by each source, 165, 170 and 175, satellites of the geolocation system 200.
    This geolocation system 200 is, for example, the GPS system.
    The estimation means 180 is, for example, an electronic calculation circuit configured to calculate a pseudo-distance between the transponder, 125, 130 or 135, and each source, 165, 170 and / or 175, the signal of which has been received by the receiver 160. To estimate each pseudo-distance, the estimation means 180: calculates the time difference between the signal emitted by a source, 165, 170 or 175 and a local replica of this same signal, reconstituted by synchronized with the local clock to the transponder, 125, 130 or 135, - calculates the pseudo-distance by multiplying a wave propagation velocity constant, such as the value of the velocity of the light in the vacuum for example, by the time difference between the received signal and the local replica.
    The clocks of each transponder, 125, 130, 135, are independent. But it is possible from the estimator of pseudo-radio distances, to generate a clock synchronized with the system 200 of geolocation.
    The communication means 140 is, for example, an antenna configured to transmit electromagnetic signals to at least one underwater device, 105, 110, 115 and / or 120.
    However, because of propagation constraints in an underwater environment, this communication means 140 is preferably an electroacoustic transducer configured to emit acoustic signals representative of electrical signals.
    Thus, as understood, in this embodiment, the communication means 140 does not communicate a determined position of the transponder, 125, 130 or 135, to the underwater device, 105, 110, 115 or 120, but only the determined pseudo-distances. The transmitter 140 is, for example, an electro-acoustic transducer configured to emit acoustic signals representative of electrical signals.
    These signals are, for example, representative of directions in a three-dimensional space of each satellite, and the position of a boat possibly.
    In embodiments, at least one submarine acoustic transmitter 140, 105, 110, 115 and / or 120, is synchronized to an internal clock of the radio receiver 160 of the geolocation system 200.
    In preferred variants, the transmitter 140 and the communication means 140 are merged.
    Each underwater device, 105, 110, 115 and 120, comprises a means 145 for receiving information representative of the pseudo-radio distances emitted by at least two transponders, 125, 130 and / or 135, surface.
    This receiving means 145 is, for example, an electroacoustic transducer configured to transform acoustic signals into electrical signals. These electrical signals are representative of a pseudo-distance estimated by the transponder, 125, 130 or 135, having emitted the corresponding acoustic signals.
    Each subsea device, 105, 110, 115 and 120, comprises an acoustic signal receiver 145 configured to receive the acoustic signals emitted by at least two surface transponders, 125, 130 and / or 135.
    The receiver 145 is, for example, an antenna configured to receive electromagnetic signals emitted by a transmitter 140.
    Whatever the technology, standard or standard implemented by the transmitter 140, the receiver 145 implements the same technology, standard, or the same standard in a complementary manner.
    In variants, the transmitter 140 and the receiver 145 are connected by a flexible electrical cable or by infrared wave transmission.
    In preferred embodiments, the receiver 145 is an electro-acoustic transducer configured to transform acoustic signals into electrical signals.
    In preferred embodiments, the receiver 145 and the reception means 145 are merged.
    In variants, the communication between a subsea device, 105, 110, 115 and / or 120, with a surface transponder, 125, 130 and / or 135, is bidirectional.
    The determination means 150 is, for example, an electronic calculation circuit operating in a similar manner to the estimation means 180 of each transponder 125, 130 and 135.
    To estimate each pseudo-distance, the determining means 150: calculates the time difference between the signal emitted by a source 125, 130 or 135 and a local replica of this same signal, reconstituted in a manner synchronized with the local clock at the level of of the underwater device, 105, 110, 115 or 120, - calculates the pseudo-distance by multiplying a wave propagation rate constant, such as the value of the sound velocity in the seawater for example, by the difference time between the received signal and the local replica.
    The clocks of each underwater device, 105, 110, 115 or 120, are for example synchronized to the clock of the transponders, 125, 130 and 135, preferably synchronized to the clock of the geolocation system 200.
    The calculating means 155 of each underwater device, 105, 110, 115 and 120, is, for example, an electronic calculation circuit configured to: calculate, by trilateration, the positioning of the underwater device, 105, 110 , 115 or 120, relative to each transponder, 125, 130 and / or 135, for which a pseudo-distance has been determined by the determination means 150, - calculate, by trilateration, the positioning of each transponder, 125, 130 and / or 135, for which a pseudo-distance has been determined by the determining means 150, with respect to the sources 165, 170 and / or 175, of the geolocation system 200, - calculating, by transitivity, the positioning of the device underwater, 105, 110, 115 or 120, compared to the sources, 165, 170 and or 175, satellites of the geolocation system 200
    The probabilistic estimation process is executed on the means 155 for calculating the position of the device. The process performs, for example, the following operations: the progressive construction of a state vector, each element of the state vector being a mono or multidimensional digital variable having a numerical value. The following variables may be mentioned: at each instant a new three-dimensional position of the device, 105, 110, 115 or 120, submarine executing the probabilistic estimation with respect to the sources, 165, 170 and or 175, satellites of the system of geolocation 200, the clock differences, in seconds, between each radio receiver of the system 200 and the underwater device, the clock differences, in seconds, between each radio receiver of the system 200 and the sources, 165, 170 and or 175, satellites. - the progressive construction of the measurement vector. Each measurement is a random variable resulting from a measurement process. We can mention measurements of pseudo-acoustic and radio distances, but also measurements of depth, acceleration or ambient magnetism, for example. the progressive construction of the measurement residue vector. Each measurement residue is a function of a measure of the measurement vector with the state vector. The residue is characterized in that its numerical value (mono or multidimensional dimension identical or different from the measurement concerned) is zero in the case of a measurement considered to be error-free, and the value of which increases when this error considered grandis. - finally a regular process of updating the state vector. The objective of this process is to re-evaluate said state vector by exploring new values and then reevaluate the measurement residue vector in order to minimize a certain standard of the measurement residue vector. To do this, there are several methods called probabilistic. They are called probabilistic in the sense that the theory of probabilities makes it possible to give a direction and a value of the iterative updating of the state vector. We can mention the methods based on pseudoinverses, based on the decomposition known as "QR", the decomposition of Cholesky, or the methods of semi-random explorations of
    Monte Carlo, or methods based on evolutionary theories from the field of genetics. - Optionally, we can add a process of elimination of the values of state and measures whose effects are considered as undesirable on the overall process.
    The probabilistic estimation process thus makes it possible to obtain in real time the trajectory or part of the trajectory of the means 155 for calculating the position of the device in addition to other variables considered as secondary.
    In embodiments, each emitter 140 of a transponder, 125, 130 or 135, emits acoustically a linear combination of several periodic signals on several channels due to a channel for a pseudo-distance to be transmitted, each channel being either a clock signal in the time of the geolocation system 200, or the representation of one of the radio pseudoranges whose information is to be transmitted, each periodic signal being temporally shifted as a function of the value of the pseudo -distance radio to emit.
    Thus, for example, if the transmitter 140 is to emit a signal representative of an estimated pseudo-distance, this emitter 140 emits acoustic signals at two frequencies: a first frequency corresponds to the clock signal of the geolocation system 200 and a second frequency corresponding to the pseudo-distance to be transmitted.
    On this second frequency, a periodic signal is transmitted, continuously or during a determined time interval, and offset temporally according to the value of the estimated pseudo-distance. The offset function is for example linear, at the rate of one second for a unit of distance determined. For example, a distance of one hundred kilometers corresponds to a shift of one millisecond. Thus, if an estimated pseudo-distance is equal to twenty thousand kilometers, the periodic signal is shifted by two hundred milliseconds.
    If, for example, the transmitter 140 must emit two signals representative each of an estimated pseudo-distance, three frequencies are implemented: the first corresponds to the clock signal, the second corresponds to a first pseudo-distance and the third is a second pseudo-distance.
    Thus, as understood, in these embodiments, the value of the pseudo-distances is binarized then emitted by the transmitter 140 but emitted indirectly by offset of the periodic signal. These embodiments make the transmission of pseudo-range values more robust.
    In addition, the implementation of a plurality of frequencies allows a simultaneous emission, and indirect, the value of each pseudo-distance.
    In these embodiments, the acoustic receiver 145 reconstructs the information representative of the pseudo-radio distances, by comparing the arrival times of the different acoustic signals on the different acoustic channels.
    In embodiments, at least one surface transponder 130 comprises at least two acoustic transmitters 140 underwater.
    In embodiments, the system 100 which is the subject of the present invention comprises a structure 132 for fixing the at least two so-called acoustic underwater emitters 140, the surface transponder 130 comprising a means 133 for determining the position of these acoustic emitters submarines in the terrestrial reference system relative to the receiver of the signals emitted by the satellite sources 165, 170 and 175, and a calculation means 134 implementing the following operations: a measurement of simulated pseudo-theoretical radio range values an identical positioning of the radio receiver 160 and acoustic transmitters 140 underwater and a control transmission sending theoretical measurements of values of pseudo-radio distances, by each transmitter 140.
    This calculating means 134 is, for example, an electronic calculating circuit.
    The calculating means 134 retrieves the measurements of pseudo-radio distances from the radio receiver 160 and the respective directions of the sources, 165, 170 and / or 175 of the geolocation system 200 in a local reference frame (for example East / North / High). . It is considered that the calculation means is able to know the position of the underwater acoustic transmitters 140 with respect to the radio receiver 160 in said local frame.
    Then it is possible to simulate what would have been the measurement of radio pseudo-distance if the receiver 160 had been placed at the position of each transmitter 140. Indeed, it is known that the measure of pseudo-radio distance is by definition the on the one hand, the phase shift multiplied by the speed of light, and on the other hand the distance between the source 165, 170 and / or 175 of the geolocation system 200 and the radio receiver 160. The constant phase shift is also considered during the simulation of the displacement of the receiver 160. Thus, to obtain the new measurement of pseudo-radio distance, as if the radio receiver had been placed at the position of an acoustic transmitter 140, it will be necessary to add to the pseudo-distance measurement, in meters, the orthogonal projection distance of the position vector of the acoustic transmitter 140, projected on the unit vector passing through the receiver 160 radio and the source 165, 170 and / or 175 of the geolocation system 200, in meters. This is our new pseudorange virtual measure respecting the pseudo-distance radio measurement model.
    In embodiments, at least one surface transponder 125 comprises means 186 for determining a position with respect to the geolocation system 200, the transmitter 140 transmitting information representative of the determined position towards the device, 105, 110 , 115 and / or 120 submarines, the means 155 for calculating the underwater device being configured to calculate a position relative to the repository of the geolocation system 200.
    The determination means 186 is, for example, an electronic calculation circuit configured to estimate, in a probabilistic manner, the positioning of the transponder 125 from, at least, a selection of the information representative of the pseudo-radio distances estimated by the average estimation 180.
    This determination means 186 is configured to, for example, perform a trilateration of the transponder 125 from the pseudo-distances estimated by the estimation means 180.
    In embodiments, the system 100 includes at least two devices, 105, 110, 115 and / or 120, subs.
    In embodiments, at least one surface transponder, 125, 130 and / or 135, comprises a communication means 140 configured to receive, from at least one "main" submarine device 105, the position of one or more subsea devices and retransmitting this information representative of the position of one or more subsea devices to at least one second subsea device, the so-called "main" underwater devices being configured to transmit a information representative of the position of at least one underwater device to at least one transponder, 125, 130 and / or 135, surface.
    In embodiments, at least one device, 105, 110, 115 and / or 120, submarine comprises a means 191 for communicating information representative of the computed position to at least one second underwater device said " main >>.
    The communication means 191 is, for example, an antenna configured to emit electromagnetic signals or an electroacoustic transducer configured to emit acoustic signals representative of electrical signals representative of the calculated position.
    In embodiments, at least one subsea device 105 includes means 195 for displaying positioning information of at least one subsea device 110.
    This display means 195 is, for example, a screen.
    In embodiments, the system 100 which is the subject of the present invention comprises a display means 210, positioned above the surface, of information representative of the position of one or more subsea devices, 105, 110, 115 and / or 120.
    This display means 210 is, for example, a screen of a computer, a digital tablet or an ordiphone for example.
    In embodiments, at least one subsea device 110 comprises at least one additional sensor 190 among: - a depth sensor, - an inertial unit and - a magnetometer, the means 155 for calculating the position of the device comprising a calculation unit executing a probabilistic estimation process carrying out this estimation using at least the following measures: a selection of the information representative of the pseudo-radio distances received by the reception means; a selection of determined pseudo-acoustic distances; by the determination means and - a selection of measurements from at least one said additional sensor.
    In embodiments, at least one device 110 is embedded in a bracelet.
    In variants, at least one underwater device is embedded in a drone or in an underwater device.
    Preferably, the system 100 which is the subject of the present invention comprises: at least three transponders, 125, 130 and 135, and a sensor 190 or at least four transponders, 125, 130 and 135.
    FIG. 2 shows a particular embodiment of the method 300 that is the subject of the present invention. This method 300 for positioning an underwater device comprises: a step 305 for attaching a transponder to a float configured to present zero buoyancy at a dedicated depth; a step 310 for receiving, by at least two transponders of surface, of radio signals emitted by at least two satellite sources of signals of a geolocation system, - a step 315 of estimating at least one pseudo-radio distance between the surface transponder and at least two signal sources of the geolocation system, a step 320 of communication, by a transponder, of information representative of the pseudo-radio distances to the subsea device, a step 325 of underwater acoustic emission, by a transponder, synchronized on the time of the geolocation system configured to transmit an acoustic signal to the underwater device, - a step 330 of receiving information, by a means n receiving device of the subsea device, representative of the pseudo-radio distances emitted by at least two surface transponders, - a step 335 for receiving acoustic signals, by a receiver of the subsea device, acoustic signals emitted by at least two surface transponders; a step 340 for determining one or more acoustic pseudo-distances between at least two underwater acoustic transmitters of surface transponders and the subsea device; and a step 345 for calculating the position of the transponder. device in a terrestrial frame centered on one of the surface transponders, the position calculating means comprising a calculation unit executing a probabilistic estimation process carrying out this estimation using at least the following measures: a selection information representative of the pseudo-radio distances received by the reception means, - a selection of pseudo-acoustic distances determined by the determining means.
    This method 300 is realized, for example, by the implementation of the system 100 as described with reference to FIG.
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    Claims (16)
    [1" id="c-fr-0001]
    1. System (100) for positioning a device (105, 110, 115, 120) submarine, characterized in that it comprises: - at least two transponders (125, 130, 135) surface, each transponder surface transmitter comprising a radio signal receiver (160) emitted by at least two satellite signal sources (165, 170, 175) of a geolocation system (200), - each surface transponder comprising: - means (180) estimating at least one pseudo-radio distance between the surface transponder and at least two signal sources of the geolocation system; - a binding (185) to a float configured to have zero buoyancy at a dedicated depth; and means (140) for communicating information representative of radio pseudo-distances to the subsea device, and - a time-synchronized underwater acoustic transmitter (140) of the geolocation system configured to transmit an acoustic signal to the submarine device, the underwater device comprising: means (145) for receiving information representative of the radio pseudodistances transmitted by at least two surface transponders; a receiver (145) for acoustic signals configured to receive the acoustic signals emitted by at least two surface transponders; means (150) for determining one or more acoustic pseudo-distances between at least two underwater acoustic transmitters and the subsea device; ) calculating the position of the device in a terrestrial frame centered on one of the surface transponders, the position calculating means comprising a calculation unit executing a probabilistic estimation process making this estimation using at least one the following measures: a selection of the information representative of the radio pseudoranges received by the reception means, a selection of pseudo-distances acoustics determined by the determining means.
    [2" id="c-fr-0002]
    The system (100) of claim 1, wherein at least one underwater acoustic transmitter (140) is synchronized to an internal clock of the radio receiver of the geolocation system (200).
    [3" id="c-fr-0003]
    3. System (100) according to one of claims 1 or 2, wherein the transmitter (140) acoustic and the means (140) of communication are merged, the acoustic transmitter communicating information representative pseudo-radio distances to the underwater device.
    [4" id="c-fr-0004]
    4. System (100) according to claim 3, wherein the receiver (145) and the means (145) for receiving a subsea device are combined, the receiver receiving information representative of the pseudo-radio distances emitted by the minus two surface transponders.
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    5. System (100) according to one of claims 1 to 4, wherein: - each transmitter (140) of a surface transponder (125, 130, 135) emits acoustically a linear combination of several periodic signals on several channels has a channel for a pseudo-distance to be transmitted, each channel being either a clock signal in time of the system (200) of geolocation, or the representation of one of the pseudo-radio distances of which the information is to be transmitted, each periodic signal being temporally shifted according to the value of the radio pseudo-distance to be transmitted and - the acoustic receiver (145) reconstitutes the information representative of the pseudo-radio distances, by comparison of the arrival times different acoustic signals on the different acoustic channels.
    [6" id="c-fr-0006]
    6. System (100) according to one of claims 1 to 5, wherein at least one surface transponder (125, 130, 135) comprises at least two emitters (140) acoustic subsea.
    [7" id="c-fr-0007]
    7. System (100) according to claim 6, which comprises a structure (132) for fixing the at least two so-called acoustic transmitters (140) underwater, the surface transponder (130) comprising a means (133) for determining the the position of these underwater acoustic transmitters in the terrestrial reference system relative to the receiver of the signals emitted by the satellite sources (165; 170, 175), and a calculation means implementing the following operations: a measurement of pseudo values theoretical radio simulators simulating an identical positioning of the radio receiver and underwater acoustic transmitters; and sending a command for sending theoretical measurements of radio pseudo-range values by each transmitter.
    [8" id="c-fr-0008]
    8. System (100) according to one of claims 1 to 7, wherein at least one surface transponder (125) comprises a means (186) for determining a position relative to the system (200) geolocation, l transmitter (140) transmitting information representative of the determined position to the subsea device (105, 110, 115, 120), the means (155) for calculating the underwater device being configured to calculate a position relative to the repository of the geolocation system.
    [9" id="c-fr-0009]
    9. System (100) according to claim 1 to 8, which comprises at least two devices (105, 115) submarines.
    [10" id="c-fr-0010]
    10. System (100) according to claim 9, wherein at least one transponder (125, 130, 135) surface comprises a means (140) for communication configured to receive, since at least one subsea device called "main" , the position of one or more subsea devices, and retransmitting this information representative of the position of one or more subsea devices to at least a second subsea device, the so-called "main" underwater devices being configured to transmit information representative of the position of at least one underwater device to at least one surface transponder.
    [11" id="c-fr-0011]
    The system (100) of claim 10, wherein at least one subsea device (105, 110, 115, 120) includes means for communicating information representative of the calculated position to at least a second device under -marine says "principal".
    [12" id="c-fr-0012]
    12. System (100) according to claims 1 to 11, wherein at least one device (105) submarine comprises means (195) for displaying a positioning information of at least one device (110) under -marine.
    [13" id="c-fr-0013]
    13. System (100) according to one of claims 1 to 12, which comprises a display means (210), positioned above the surface, an information representative of the position of one or more devices under -marins.
    [14" id="c-fr-0014]
    14. System (100) according to one of claims 1 to 13, wherein at least one device (110) submarine comprises at least one sensor (190) additional among: - a depth sensor, - an inertial unit and a magnetometer, the means (155) for calculating the position of the device comprising a calculation unit executing a probabilistic estimation process carrying out this estimation using at least the following measures: a selection of the information representative of the pseudo- radio distances received by the reception means, a selection of pseudo-acoustic distances determined by the determination means and a selection of measurements from at least one said additional sensor.
    [15" id="c-fr-0015]
    15. System (100) according to one of claims 1 to 14, wherein at least one device (110) is embedded in a bracelet.
    [16" id="c-fr-0016]
    16. Method (300) for positioning an underwater device, characterized in that it comprises: a step (305) for attaching a transponder to a float configured to present zero buoyancy at a dedicated depth, a step (310) of receiving, by at least two surface transponders, radio signals transmitted by at least two satellite signal sources of a geolocation system; a step (315) of estimating at least one pseudo-radio distance between the surface transponder and at least two signal sources of the geolocation system, - a step (320) of communication, by a transponder, of information representative of the pseudo-radio distances to the subsea device, a submarine acoustic emission stage (325), by a transponder, synchronized over time of the geolocation system configured to transmit an acoustic signal to the underwater device, a step (330) receiving information, by means of receiving means of the subsea device, representative of the pseudo-radio distances transmitted by at least two surface transponders, - a step (335) for receiving acoustic signals, by a receiver of the device under -marine, acoustic signals emitted by at least two surface transponders, - a step (340) for determining one or more acoustic pseudo-distances between at least two underwater acoustic transmitters of surface transponders and the sub-device and a step (345) for calculating the position of the device in a terrestrial frame centered on one of the surface transponders, the position calculating means comprising a calculation unit executing a probabilistic estimation process carrying out this estimation using at least the following measures: a selection of the information representative of the pseudo-radio distances received by the reception means, a selection of pseudo-acoustic distances determined by the determination means.
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