"Marine Bird", a new experimental AUV - results of docking and electric power supply tests in sea trials

Author

Kawasaki, Tadayuki ; Noguchi, Toshihito ; Fukasawa, Toshifumi ; Hayashi, Shinjirou ; Shibata, Yozo ; Limori, Takeo ; Okaya, Noriyuki ; Fukui, Kouichi ; Kinoshita, Masato

Author_Institution

Dept. of Submarine Design, Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corp., Kobe

Volume

3

fYear

2004

fDate

9-12 Nov. 2004

Firstpage

1738

Abstract

"Marine Bird" is an experimental autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) that can dock with an underwater base to charge batteries. In October 2003, we carried out the second sea trials off Wakayama Prefecture, Japan and succeeded for the first time in autonomous docking and power supply from an underwater station (a dummy base) to the vehicle under the real environment. This paper describes the outline and the results of the sea trials as well as the overview of the Marine Bird

Keywords

battery chargers; battery powered vehicles; oceanographic equipment; oceanography; remotely operated vehicles; underwater vehicles; AD 2003 10; AUV; Japan; Marine Bird; Wakayama Prefecture; autonomous docking; autonomous underwater vehicle; docking test; electric power supply test; sea trials; underwater base; underwater station; Birds; Control systems; Marine vehicles; Motion control; Optical control; Power supplies; Pressure control; Remotely operated vehicles; Testing; Underwater vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

OCEANS '04. MTTS/IEEE TECHNO-OCEAN '04

Conference_Location

Kobe

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8669-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OCEANS.2004.1406387

Filename

1406387