From market-ready ROVs to low-cost AUVs

Jonatan Scharff Willners; Ignacio Carlucho; Sean Katagiri; Chandler Lemoine; Joshua Roe; Dylan Stephens; Tomasz Luczynski; Shida Xu; Yaniel Carreno; Eric Pairet; Corina Barbalata; Yvan Petillot; Sen Wang

doi:10.23919/OCEANS44145.2021.9705798

From market-ready ROVs to low-cost AUVs

Jonatan Scharff Willners, Ignacio Carlucho, Sean Katagiri, Chandler Lemoine, Joshua Roe, Dylan Stephens, Tomasz Luczynski, Shida Xu, Yaniel Carreno, Eric Pairet, Corina Barbalata, Yvan Petillot, Sen Wang

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Abstract

Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) are becoming increasingly important for different types of industrial applications. The generally high cost of AUVs restricts the access to them and therefore advances in research and technological development. However, recent advances have led to lower cost commercially available Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs), which present a platform that can be enhanced to enable a high degree of autonomy, similar to that of a high-end AUV. In this article, we present how a low-cost commercial-off-the-shelf ROV can be used as a foundation for developing versatile and affordable AUVs. We introduce the required hardware modifications to obtain a system capable of autonomous operations as well as the necessary software modules. Additionally, we present a set of use cases exhibiting the versatility of the developed platform for intervention and mapping tasks.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	OCEANS 2021
Subtitle of host publication	San Diego - Porto
Publisher	IEEE
ISBN (Electronic)	9780692935590
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.23919/OCEANS44145.2021.9705798
Publication status	Published - 15 Feb 2022
Event	OCEANS 2021: San Diego - Porto - San Diego, United States Duration: 20 Sept 2021 → 23 Sept 2021

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Conference	OCEANS 2021: San Diego - Porto
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Diego
Period	20/09/21 → 23/09/21

Keywords

Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
Autonomy
Hardware
Remotely Operated Vehicle
Robot Operating System
Underwater Manipulation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Oceanography

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