Investigation of vision in near seabed navigation on new smart ROV LATIS

Jonathan Horgan, Francis Flannery, Edin Omerdic, Daniel Toal

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Abstract

Accurate navigation is a critical requirement for many unmanned underwater vehicles missions. This becomes even more apparent when operating in near intervention and hazardous locations such as near the seabed. The use of vision systems and image processing as a means of high precision horizontal motion estimation in near seabed missions can bring many advantages over commercially available sensor solutions. This paper discusses the vision system and the data collection method used for vision based navigation investigation on the newly developed smart remotely operated vehicle, ROVLATIS. ROV LATIS has undergone full sea trials onboard the RV Celtic Explorer off the west coast of Ireland. The key results and conclusions from these trials are presented.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 8th International IFAC Conference on Manoeuvring and Control of Marine Craft, MCMC 2009
PublisherIFAC Secretariat
Pages282-285
Number of pages4
Edition18
ISBN (Print)9783902661517
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2009

Publication series

NameIFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline)
Number18
Volume42
ISSN (Print)1474-6670

Keywords

  • Cameras
  • Marine robotics
  • Marine systems
  • Robot navigation
  • Robot vision

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