Romeo goes to Antarctica [unmanned underwater vehicle]

Author

Bono, R. ; Bruzzone, G. ; Bruzzone, G. ; Caccia, M. ; Spirandelli, E. ; Veruggio, G.

Author_Institution

Inst. Autom. Navale, CNR, Genova, Italy

Volume

3

fYear

1998

fDate

28 Sep-1 Oct 1998

Firstpage

1568

Abstract

Deals with the first operational campaign of Romeo, the latest unmanned underwater vehicle developed at CNR-IAN. Romeo has been designed as an operational testbed to perform research on intelligent vehicles in the real subsea environment. Its main application field is the development of advanced methodologies for marine science. A brief description of the mechanical design and of the control, computing and software architecture of Romeo is given and its exploitation in Antarctica is reported. During the XIII Italian Expedition to Terra Nova Bay (29 October 1997-26 February 1998) it has been used for (a) collecting data about under-ice biological processes, (b) testing under-ice performances of a set of acoustic devices for autonomous navigation and guidance, and (c) collecting benthic data in the Marine Antarctic Specially Protected Area established near the Italian TNB Station

Keywords

oceanographic equipment; remotely operated vehicles; underwater vehicles; AD 1997 10 29 to 1998 02 26; Antarctica; CNR-IAN; Istituto Automazione Navale; Italian TNB Station; Marine Antarctic Specially Protected Area; Romeo; Terra Nova Bay; XIII Italian Expedition; acoustic devices; autonomous navigation; benthic data collection; computing architecture; control; guidance; intelligent vehicles; marine science; mechanical design; operational campaign; software architecture; subsea environment; testbed; under-ice biological processes; unmanned underwater vehicle; Acoustic devices; Acoustic testing; Antarctica; Application software; Biological processes; Biology computing; Intelligent vehicles; Performance evaluation; Software architecture; Underwater vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

OCEANS '98 Conference Proceedings

Conference_Location

Nice

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5045-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OCEANS.1998.726336

Filename

726336