Propulsors are essential power units for underwater vehicles and major sources of self-noise, with unsteady pressure pulsations linked to flow-induced noise. To study the impact of guide vane case on the hydrodynamic performance and pressure pulsation of a shaftless pump-jet thruster, six guide vane configurations were first compared under a reference operating condition of 600 rpm: a vaneless baseline, fixed vertical guide va...

Subsea Christmas trees are often deployed in turbid coastal waters or seabed environments. During manipulator operations on Christmas tree panels, conventional optical servoing is severely limited by rapid electromagnetic attenuation and strong scattering from suspended particles, resulting in reduced visibility. Forward-looking sonar (FLS) provides stable imaging, but its unique imaging geometry and low resolution make direct...

In a typical underwater acoustic target detection mission, we have to estimate the target number (N), perform source separation when N>1, and consequently predict the motion parameters such as fundamental frequency (F0) from separated noises for each target. Although deep learning methods have been adopted in each task, their successes strongly depend on the feed-in features. In this paper, we evaluate several time-frequency f...