Objective
The main objective of the programme is to enhance the capability of existing commercial remotely operated and free swimming vehicles (ROVsFSVs) to undertake a range of scientific and industrial tasks such as sea bed surveying, scientific data collection and mining. This main objective can be achieved only by solving several technological problems. Key technological areas of networking, vision, positioning and control will be investigated by using modern computers and electronics in order to achieve these aims.
To use present commercial remote operated vehicles to carry out subsea tasks requires a high level of sophistication which can only be achieved by technology enhancements. A research program has been undertaken to enhance the following technologies; vision, networking, manipulators and control. All the systems have been developed around the transputer and have been integrated on a specially designed experimental remote operated vehicle (Aquasphere). This system is being used for a task of object identification, location and recovery which has been identified as a suitable demonstrator task for this technology.
Tasks include RTD on the following: 1) a 3d real time vision system for undertaking subsea tasks; 2) an on-board networking and data acquisition system for collecting scientific information from a multitude of sensors; 3) a computer controller using parallel processing devices for a commercial robot arm manipulator; 4) a computer system to control the position of a ROV in order to allow it to undertake subsea tasks.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering electronic engineering sensors
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Coordinator
L69 3SG LIVERPOOL
United Kingdom
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