Underwater technology 2000 ROVs and AUVs: tools for exploring, exploiting and defending the ocean frontier

Author

McFarlane, James R.

Author_Institution

Int. Submarine Eng. Ltd., Port Coquitlam, BC, Canada

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

465

Lastpage

471

Abstract

The ocean represents 97% of the worlds biological habitat. It is also the mantel which covers 70% of the world´s surface through which we reach for aggregates, places of gold and diamonds, petroleum and gas deposits, food and metaliforous deposits as well as defend our sovereign interests and as a dump for waste. ROVs are being and AUVs will be used as platforms to explore and exploit the world´s oceans. The paper considers current ROV and AUV applications, proposes new missions, reviews design issues and considers design directions of new vehicles and explores the potential of heterogeneous systems which use vehicles in conjunction with bottom mounted sensors which are connected to a shore based station

Keywords

mobile robots; remotely operated vehicles; underwater vehicles; AUVs; ROVs; aggregates; biological habitat; bottom mounted sensors; design issues; diamonds; food; gas deposits; gold; metaliforous deposits; ocean frontier; petroleum; shore based station; sovereign interests; waste; Aggregates; Gold; Oceans; Petroleum; Remotely operated vehicles; Sea surface; Sensor systems and applications; Underwater technology; Underwater vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Underwater Technology, 2000. UT 00. Proceedings of the 2000 International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Tokyo

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6378-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/UT.2000.852588

Filename

852588