Title :
Development of a low cost Autonomous Underwater Vehicle for Antarctic exploration
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., ESPOL, Guayaquil, Ecuador
Abstract :
This paper describes the design and construction of a Low Cost Autonomous Underwater Vehicle prototype for Antarctic Exploration to use it in the Ecuadorian Expedition to the Scientific Base Pedro Vicente Maldonado in Antarctica. This AUV can work as a platform to transport scientific payload in a determined path. The AUV length is less than 2m. Results of some systems of the AUV from laboratory, sea trials and Antarctic environment are show.
Keywords :
geophysical prospecting; mobile robots; path planning; prototypes; remotely operated vehicles; underwater vehicles; Antarctic environment; Antarctic exploration; Ecuadorian expedition; low cost autonomous underwater vehicle development; scientific base Pedro Vicente Maldonado; scientific payload; sea trial; Antarctica; Navigation; Ocean temperature; Robots; Sensors; Underwater vehicles; Vehicles; Antarctica; Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV); Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA); Guidance; Inertial Navigation System (INS); Navigation and Control (GNC); Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV);
Conference_Titel :
Technologies for Practical Robot Applications (TePRA), 2011 IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Woburn, MA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-482-4
DOI :
10.1109/TEPRA.2011.5753485
