Unmanned Surface Vessels for Rapid Environmental Assessment in challenging inland waterways and tidal environments

无人水面舰艇在具有挑战性的内陆水道和潮汐环境中进行快速环境评估

• 批准号: 104834
• 金额: $ 84.56万
• 依托单位: HYDROSURV UNMANNED SURVEY (UK) LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=104834
• 关键词: Unmanned; Surface; Vessels; Rapid; Environmental

"The use of small, affordable Unmanned Surface Vessels (USVs) as remote sensing platforms for environmental surveys promises significant gains when compared to established techniques for charting shallow-water environments. High current velocities, unpredictable flow directions, turbidity and navigational hazards or obstructions can create a difficult operational environment for sensor platforms; and often a hazardous environment for surveyors.Safeguard Nautica has developed the micro-Rapid Environmental Assessment Vessel (mREAV) - a readily portable USV with an embedded dynamic positioning control system, mission planning system and redundant propulsion configuration with the intent of providing extended capabilities for hydrology and prospective users for whom waterborne site investigation in riverine, estuary and inland coastal environments is essential to their day-job.Phase 1 of the Demonstrator for Robotics & Artificial Intelligence (RAI) in Extreme & Challenging Environments, enabled the consortium to integrate the main mission planning and embedded control systems into the mREAV USV. The Phase 2 follow-on project will build upon this initial progress by delivering extensive testing of two fully integrated unmanned surface systems on real-world campaigns within a variety of still water, riverine, estuary and open-water environments using a range of hydro-acoustic, photogrammetry and user-defined sensor payloads. Close consultation with background partners from the user-community will ensure validated development feedback to optimise the platform iteratively during the two-year project.During Phase 1, consultation with the user community has revealed the value proposition and technical solution offered by mREAV for dynamic inland environments could have significant further applicability within high-energy wave and tidal work sites. In Phase 2, alongside continued development and testing of mREAV, a larger open-water variant with shared sub-systems will also be developed to operate in coastal / inshore environments. The REAV will complete two environmental survey campaigns at a UK tidal test site, providing a validated cost-reduction initiative for monitoring surveys aimed at the cost sensitive tidal energy sector, and other marine renewable energy applications within inshore waters. By operating the mREAV and REAV USVs together; the Phase 2 test plan will also demonstrate the extended capability of operating both USVs to provide relay / range extension through collaborative working at a special demonstration test in South West England.Collectively, the spread of operational testing delivered continuously during the project will provide continued development feedback, design improvement and validated demonstration of productivity improvements and reduced survey acquisition costs, in close cooperation with end-users."

“与现有的浅水环境制图技术相比，使用小型、负担得起的无人水面船（USV）作为环境调查的遥感平台，有望取得重大进展。高流速、不可预测的流动方向、浑浊和航行危险或障碍物会给传感器平台造成困难的操作环境; Safeguard Nautica开发了微型快速环境评估船（mREAV）-一种便携式USV，带有嵌入式动态定位控制系统，使命规划系统和冗余推进配置，旨在为水文和潜在用户提供扩展能力，河口和内陆沿海环境对他们的日常工作至关重要。在极端和恶劣环境中的机器人和人工智能（RAI）演示器的第一阶段，使联合体能够将主要的使命规划和嵌入式控制系统集成到mREAV USV中。第二阶段的后续项目将在这一初步进展的基础上，使用一系列水声、摄影测量和用户定义的传感器有效载荷，在各种静水、河流、河口和开放水域环境中对两个完全集成的无人水面系统进行广泛的测试。与来自用户社区的背景合作伙伴的密切磋商将确保有效的开发反馈，以在两年的项目期间迭代地优化平台。在第一阶段，与用户社区的磋商揭示了mREAV为动态内陆环境提供的价值主张和技术解决方案，可能在高能波浪和潮汐工作现场具有显著的进一步适用性。在第二阶段，除了继续开发和测试mREAV外，还将开发一种具有共享子系统的更大开放水域变体，以在沿海/近海环境中运行。REAV将在英国潮汐试验场完成两项环境调查活动，为针对成本敏感的潮汐能部门和近岸沃茨内其他海洋可再生能源应用的监测调查提供经验证的成本降低举措。通过一起操作mREAV和REAV USV;第二阶段的试验计划还将通过在英格兰西南部进行的一次特殊的演示试验中进行的协同工作，来证明操作两种无人驾驶飞行器的扩展能力，以提供中继/射程扩展。总的来说，在项目期间连续进行的操作试验的扩展将提供持续的开发反馈，与最终用户密切合作，改进设计，经验证证明提高了生产力，降低了调查采购成本。"