A Study on Unmanned Surface Vehicle Combined with Remotely Operated Vehicle System

Authors

  • Dong Wook Jung Division of Mechanical Engineering, Korea Maritime and Ocean Univesity
  • Seung Min Hong Division of Marine Equipment Engineering, Korea Maritime and Ocean Univesity
  • Jae heon Lee Division of Mechanical Engineering, Korea Maritime and Ocean Univesity
  • Hyun Joon Cho Division of Mechanical Engineering, Korea Maritime and Ocean Univesity
  • Hyeung Sik Choi Division of Mechanical Engineering, Korea Maritime and Ocean Univesity
  • Mai The Vu Division of Mechanical Engineering, Korea Maritime and Ocean Univesity

Keywords:

unmanned surface vehicle, USV, remotely operated vehicle, ROV, hybrid system, dynamic positioning

Abstract

In this paper, we proposed a new hybrid system that combines an USV and the ROV. It is designed to overcome the cumulative navigation error and the battery problem for long time operation. The USV is connected to the underwater robot with a tether cable that enables GPS data transmission and stable power supply. In addition, by installing a winch system on the USV, it is possible to move and to retrieve the ROV for long distance travel and for depth control. The ROV equipped with underwater sensors which can acquire underwater image capture and undersea topography information and can transmit it to the land through the USV in real time was designed. Line-of-sight navigation and dynamic positioning algorithm were studied for the USV to perform autonomous navigation and keeping-position while ROV is doing underwater operations. Good performance of the USV was verified by simulation and real sea experiment using the developed hybrid USV and ROV.

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Published

2018-07-30

How to Cite

[1]
D. W. Jung, S. M. Hong, J. heon Lee, H. J. Cho, H. S. Choi, and M. T. Vu, “A Study on Unmanned Surface Vehicle Combined with Remotely Operated Vehicle System”, Proc. eng. technol. innov., vol. 9, pp. 17–24, Jul. 2018.

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Vol. 9 (2018)

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