Side scan sonar using for underwater cables & pipelines tracking by means of AUV

Author

Bagnitsky, Andrey ; Inzartsev, Alexander ; Pavin, Alexander ; Melman, Sergey ; Morozov, Mikhail

Author_Institution

Inst. of Marine Technol. Problems Far East Branch, Russian Acad. of Sci., Vladivostok, Russia

fYear

2011

fDate

5-8 April 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

10

Abstract

The paper deals with the application of side scan sonar (SSS) for inspection of underwater lengthy objects (cables and pipelines). The autonomous underwater vehicle using are suggested for this purposes. The problem of acoustic images processing for detection of communication lines on a sea-bottom and underwater robot control task are solved. Real cable recognition results and pipeline tracking modeling experiments are discussed.

Keywords

image processing; remotely operated vehicles; sonar; submarine cables; underwater vehicles; AUV; acoustic images processing; autonomous underwater vehicle; cable recognition; communication lines detection; pipeline tracking modeling; pipelines tracking; sea-bottom; side scan sonar; underwater cables; underwater lengthy objects inspection; underwater robot control; Acoustics; Filtration; Inspection; Pipelines; Pixel; Sonar; Underwater cables;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Underwater Technology (UT), 2011 IEEE Symposium on and 2011 Workshop on Scientific Use of Submarine Cables and Related Technologies (SSC)

Conference_Location

Tokyo

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0165-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/UT.2011.5774119

Filename

5774119