Vehicle for Automation Research and Underwater Navigation

Author

Sinha, Ravindra Kumar ; Ahmed, Sabir ; Tutwani, Mayank ; Bahuguna, Puneet ; Kumra, Rohit ; Agarwal, Vineet ; Saxena, Vidush ; Mittal, Vinay ; Gupta, Prateek

Author_Institution

Delhi Technol. Univ. (formerly Delhi Coll. of Eng.), Delhi, India

fYear

2011

fDate

7-10 Aug. 2011

Firstpage

2141

Lastpage

2146

Abstract

Vehicle for Automation Research and Underwater Navigation, VARUN is an autonomous underwater vehicle designed and developed by undergraduate students of Delhi Technological University, New Delhi. It is designed with a focus on shallow water applications in defense such as mine countermeasures, surveillance and reconnaissance and civilian applications at ports, in ship maintenance and in marine research. The development of the vehicle involves a multi-disciplinary approach with engineers from electronics, mechanical, information technology and production engineering.

Keywords

mobile robots; remotely operated vehicles; underwater vehicles; Delhi Technological University; New Delhi; autonomous underwater vehicle; marine research; mine countermeasures; shallow water applications; ship maintenance; vehicle for automation research and underwater navigation; Cameras; Control systems; Data acquisition; Software; Sonar equipment; Underwater vehicles; Vehicles; Autonomous Underwater Vehicle; Image Processing; PID Control; Passive SONAR;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

ISSN

2152-7431

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8113-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMA.2011.5986312

Filename

5986312