An Unmanned Surface Vehicle for Multi-mission Applications

Author

Wang, Jianhua ; Gu, Wei ; Zhu, Jianxin ; Zhang, Jubiao

Author_Institution

Marine Technol. & Control Eng. Key Lab., Shanghai Maritime Univ. Shanghai, Shanghai

fYear

2009

fDate

20-22 Feb. 2009

Firstpage

358

Lastpage

361

Abstract

This paper presents an Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) for multi-mission applications. A small catamaran equipped with remotely operated system based on wireless local area network is developed and used as a universal platform. Outfitted with different appliances and instruments, the USV is tested for various applications including harbor surveillance, water quality sampling, hydrologic survey, maritime search and rescue. Experiments show that the USV is applicable.

Keywords

marine vehicles; remotely operated vehicles; wireless LAN; catamaran; harbor surveillance; hydrologic survey; maritime search and rescue; multimission applications; remotely operated system; unmanned surface vehicle; water quality sampling; wireless local area network; Base stations; Communication system control; Instruments; Marine vehicles; Payloads; Propellers; Sampling methods; Sea surface; Surveillance; Testing; harbor surveillance; hydrologic survey; maritime search and rescue; unmanned surface vehicle; water quality sampling;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronic Computer Technology, 2009 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Macau

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3559-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICECT.2009.136

Filename

4795983