Ridley - A Submersible Deployment and Operations Platform for Subsea Robots

世界需要在海底开展工作--为了能源的可持续发展，为了增进对我们星球的了解，为了恢复和监测海洋，为了负责任地开采海洋资源。海底机器人对于海上风电等许多海洋经济部门的安全和持续增长至关重要，然而，由于依赖大型船员，柴油动力船舶。Ridley是一种用于大型海底机器人的潜水部署和操作平台，为传统大型船舶提供成本更低、更环保的替代方案，水下机器人系统。该平台可以支持行业标准的水下机器人，并使用小型服务船将其拖到干预现场。一旦到达那里，平台就可以潜入水中部署水下机器人，而不需要复杂的起重设备，也没有通常与通过飞溅区的起重机部署相关的风险。Ridley系统利用基于云的使命控制系统，使地理上分散的团队能够真实的监控操作数据并进行协作。新型潜水器部署和操作平台与基于云的分布式使命控制相结合，使Ridley系统能够提供成本更低的有竞争力的海底机器人服务，污染更少，可快速配置，以满足蓝色经济所有部门的需求。

The world needs to work subsea - for the sustainable development of energy, to advance understanding of our planet, to restore and monitor the oceans and for the responsible harvesting of their resources. Subsea robots are critical to the safe and sustained growth of many ocean economy sectors such as offshore wind, however the cost and environmental footprint of traditional deployment methods is no longer sustainable due to the reliance on large, crewed, diesel powered vessels.Ridley is a submersible deployment and operations platform for large subsea robots that delivers a less costly and more environmentally friendly alternative to traditional large vessel-based subsea robotic systems. The platform can support industry standard subsea robots and is towed to the intervention site using a small service vessel of opportunity. Once there, the platform submerges to deploy subsea robots without the need for complex lifting equipment and without the risk commonly associated with crane-based deployments through the splash-zone. The Ridley system utilises a cloud-based mission control system to allow a geographically distributed team to monitor operational data and collaborate in real time.The combination of a novel submersible deployment and operations platform with cloud-based distributed mission control allows the Ridley system to provide a competitive subsea robotic service that is less costly, less polluting and rapidly configurable to meet the needs of all sectors of the Blue Economy.