Vertical Glider Robots for Subsea Equipment Delivery

摘要：

We have developed an underwater vehicle that offers significant performance improvements over existing subsea elevators. Our Vertical Glider Robot falls under its own weight to a precise location on the seafloor, employing streamlining, active steering, and basic navigation instrumentation.We examine typical at-sea mission requirements, mention several key governing parameters, and outline our design approach. We then describe a prototype device, and present results from model-scale experiments.

作者: Brooks Reed Charles Ambler Julio Guerrero Franz Hover

作者单位: Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program in Oceanogr Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT,Cambridge,MA 02139 USA Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT,Cambridge MA 02138 USA

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation(2011年IEEE世界机器人与自动化大会 ICRA 2011)

会议地点: 上海

会议语种:英文

页码: 2356-2361

在线出版日期: 2011-05-09（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）