Objective
Design and development of a tetherless unmanned vehicle for offshore platform inspection in substitution of divers.
After detailed analysis of operating requirements and current practices with divers and evaluation of performances of existing tethered vehicles, specifications for the tetherless robot have been set up.
The vehicle is a cylindrical-shape vertical body, about 4 m high and 2 m diam. having the following features:
- ability to navigate within structure based on own position measurement and route control system.
- acoustic transmission of data (two way) and TV (128 x 128 points, 4 images per second in navigation).
- ability to dock to inspection mode, by 4 docking arms with limpets.
- 7 degrees of freedom manipulator, which kinematis is designed to maximize the weld area coverage while maintaining the tools oriented properly.
- ability to execute the three inspection levels required by current rules and practices (gree, blue, red).
- 10-12 hours autonomy with 80 MP power provided by a closed -circuit diesel engine diving oil pump and electric generator.
- high pressure water jet, magnetic particle inspection system, TV cameras, still camera.
The vehicle is controlled by a surface operator by means of a supervision control architecture and a distributed intelligence multimicro network.
The console is also provided with a 3-D computer graphics system to represent the operating environment.
The project was divided into 4 stages:
1. Conceptual design
2. Detailed design
3. Construction of prototype
4. Sea tests
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30124 VENEZIA
Italy
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