Development of an unmanned marine vehicle for autonomous monitoring and observation tasks

开发用于自主监测和观察任务的无人海上航行器

• 批准号: 505379-2016
• 负责人: DeYoung, Brad
• 金额: $ 12.5万
• 依托单位: Memorial University of Newfoundland
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Collaborative Research and Development Grants
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2018-01-01 至 2019-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=648875
• 关键词: Development; unmanned; marine; vehicle; autonomous

The objective of this project is to design and build an innovative unmanned marine submersible surface craft to serve the needs of the off-shore operators in monitoring, inspection and profiling tasks.**The vehicle will operate at the surface and also have the ability to dive, profiling in the water column to a depths of 200m. It will be able to operate, on its own power and guidance, for periods up to several weeks in the harsh ocean environment of the Northwest Atlantic. The ability for controlled operations at the surface and underwater will be unique for a unmanned marine vehicle. The sensors deployed on the vehicle enable atmospheric and oceanographic sampling, making it well suited for many different types of marine research. Other sensor suites, such as a combination of optical and acoustic systems, i.e. LIDAR and SONAR, will make the vehicle suitable for some key application areas in today's and tomorrow's off-shore industry. These tasks include but are not limited to iceberg profiling, offshore structure inspections, e.g. the riser inspection, or the automated inspection of support structures for offshore wind parks. **The key result of the work will be the highly modular vehicle itself, with substantial value in the specific design elements of the vehicle, e.g. the vertical profiling system using a combination of buoyancy adjustment and active vectored thrust. The modular payload, i.e. interchangeable sensor suites, paired with the vehicle's unique spectrum of motion, i.e. an arbitrary user defined underwater motion profile, make this vehicle particularly suited for inspection and profiling task around man-made and natural structures. **The second key output of this project will be the remote operator/user interface. This software will enable operators to plan execute and monitor progress of a mission and assess the state of the vehicle, i.e. health monitoring. Depending on the sensor suite all data will be available in close to real-time to the users or in the case of high data-rate sensors, such as cameras, an intelligently selected subset of the data will be transmitted.************

该项目的目的是设计和建立创新的无人海洋潜水表面工艺品，以满足离岸运营商在监视，检查和分析任务的需求。它将能够在西北大西洋苛刻的海洋环境中以其自身的力量和指导运行。对于无人驾驶的海洋车，地表和水下受控操作的能力将是独一无二的。部署在车辆上的传感器可实现大气和海洋学采样，使其非常适合许多不同类型的海洋研究。其他传感器套件，例如光学系统和声学系统的组合，即LIDAR和SONAR，将使该车辆适合当今和明天的近岸行业中的某些关键应用领域。这些任务包括但不限于冰山分析，海上结构检查，例如立管检查或自动检查离岸风公园的支撑结构。 **工作的关键结果将是高度模块化的车辆本身，在车辆的特定设计元素中具有很大的价值，例如垂直分析系统结合了浮力调节和主动矢量推力。模块化有效载荷，即可互换的传感器套件，并与车辆的独特运动范围配对，即，任意用户定义了水下运动概况，使该车辆特别适合于人为和自然结构围绕人造和自然结构进行检查和分析任务。 **该项目的第二个密钥输出将是远程操作员/用户界面。该软件将使操作员能够计划执行和监控任务的进度并评估车辆的状态，即健康监测。根据传感器套件的不同，所有数据将接近实时可用于用户，或者在摄像机等高数据速率传感器的情况下，将传输一个智能选择的数据子集。**********************************************************************************************