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Jiawei Zhang, Fenglei Han, Duanfeng Han, Jianfeng Yang, Wangyuan Zhao and Hansheng Li
In the realm of ocean engineering and maintenance of subsea structures, accurate underwater distance quantification plays a crucial role. However, the precision of such measurements is often compromised in underwater environments due to backward scatteri...
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Ornella Tortorici, Charly Péraud, Cédric Anthierens and Vincent Hugel
Underwater remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) are linked to the surface through a tether that is usually controlled by a human operator. The length of the tether being deployed in the water in real time is a critical determinant of the success of the miss...
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Desheng Zhang, Xin Wang, Ming Zhao, Lin Hong and Xuecheng Li
Remotely operated underwater vehicles (ROVs) have been widely used in deep-sea resource exploitation and industrial engineering operations. To perform these tasks accurately in the deep-sea environment, stable motion control has become a key area of rese...
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Qiao Zhang, Chunming Dong, Zongze Shao and Donghui Zhou
The growing need for deep-sea biological research and environmental monitoring has expanded the demand for benthic landers. Compared with remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) and autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), benthic landers can reduce overall oper...
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Maricruz Fun Sang Cepeda, Marcos de Souza Freitas Machado, Fabrício Hudson Sousa Barbosa, Douglas Santana Souza Moreira, Maria José Legaz Almansa, Marcelo Igor Lourenço de Souza and Jean-David Caprace
Operators of offshore production units (OPUs) employ risk-based assessment (RBA) techniques in order to minimise inspection expenses while maintaining risks at an acceptable level. However, when human divers and workers are involved in inspections conduc...
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Filippo Campagnaro, Fabian Steinmetz and Bernd-Christian Renner
Traditionally, underwater acoustic modems and positioning systems were developed for military and Oil & Gas industries, that require deep water deployments and extremely reliable systems, focusing on high power expensive systems and leaving the use o...
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Ioannis Polymenis, Maryam Haroutunian, Rose Norman and David Trodden
Underwater Vehicles have become more sophisticated, driven by the off-shore sector and the scientific community?s rapid advancements in underwater operations. Notably, many underwater tasks, including the assessment of subsea infrastructure, are performe...
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Bolun Huang and Qi Yang
The open-frame structure of work-class ROVs results in significant model uncertainties, and its motion is strongly disturbed by the umbilical cable. To address these problems, this article developed a nonlinear disturbance observer-based super-twisting d...
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Alexander Konoplin, Nikita Konoplin and Alexander Yurmanov
The article considers the issues of development of a smart system for supporting activities of ROV operators and its practical implementation for the efficient operation a ROV Comanche 18 that is based on the R/V Akademik M.A. Lavrentiev. The system uses...
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Fredrik Fogh Sørensen, Malte von Benzon, Jesper Liniger and Simon Pedersen
Offshore pipelines and structures require regular marine growth removal and inspection to ensure structural integrity. These operations are typically carried out by Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) and demand reliable and accurate feedback signals for o...
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