Improvement and sea test of Autonomous Underwater Vehicle “URASHIMA” for practical use

Author

Ishiwata, J. ; Tsukioka, S. ; Hyakudome, Tadahiro ; Sawa, T. ; Nakajo, H. ; Nanbu, Yoshinobu ; Watanabe, Kojiro ; Ishikawa, Akihisa

Author_Institution

Japan Agency for Marine Earth Sci. & Technol., Yokosuka

fYear

2008

fDate

15-18 Sept. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Japan Agency for Marine-earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) launched an ocean-going autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) "URASHIMA" which has been studied and developed the key technologies since 2000. The navigation and research abilities were verified by the past sea test. AUV will be put to practical use in 2009. Therefore, it is important to advance the practical operability of AUV. In this paper, problems in a present operation in sea tests are described and improvements of the operability of AUV for practical use are proposed.

Keywords

remotely operated vehicles; underwater vehicles; AUV navigation control; JAMSTEC; Japan Agency for Marine-earth Science and Technology; URASHIMA ocean-going autonomous underwater vehicle; sea test; Fiber reinforced plastics; Geoscience; Marine technology; Marine vehicles; Motion control; Remotely operated vehicles; Sonar navigation; Testing; Underwater vehicles; Weight control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

OCEANS 2008

Conference_Location

Quebec City, QC

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2619-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2620-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OCEANS.2008.5151981

Filename

5151981