Ridley - A Submersible Deployment and Operations Platform for Subsea Robots

为了能源的可持续发展，为了加深对地球的了解，为了恢复和监测海洋，为了负责任地获取海洋资源，世界需要在海底开展工作。水下机器人对于海上风电等许多海洋经济领域的安全和可持续发展至关重要，但由于依赖大型、有船员的柴油动力船舶，传统部署方法的成本和环境足迹已不再可持续。Ridley是一个用于大型水下机器人的水下部署和操作平台，与传统的大型船舶水下机器人系统相比，它提供了一种成本更低、更环保的替代方案。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，平台就可以潜入水下部署水下机器人，而不需要复杂的起重设备，也没有在飞溅区域部署起重机通常存在的风险。Ridley系统利用基于云的任务控制系统，允许地理分布的团队监控操作数据并实时协作。新型潜水器部署和操作平台与基于云的分布式任务控制相结合，使Ridley系统能够提供具有竞争力的水下机器人服务，成本更低，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.