Design and development of an RS232-based ROV controller system

Author

Zain, Zainah Md ; Ahmad, R. Badlishah ; Arshad, Mohd Rizal

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia

Volume

D

fYear

2004

fDate

21-24 Nov. 2004

Firstpage

487

Abstract

The overall design of an underwater robot which includes the design of electro-mechanical components and the control circuit diagrams are introduced. The software is also concurrently developed to meet the needs of hardware set-up. The control principle of the system components and their relationships are elucidated. This underwater robot is controlled by the keyboard key, while the feedback data from the robot are displayed on the screen of a host computer in real-time. This is a low-cost, but highly reliable control set-up, suitable for shallow water underwater application, such as typical surface inspection and sampling operation.

Keywords

cost reduction; reliability; remotely operated vehicles; telerobotics; underwater vehicles; ROV; RS232; control circuit diagrams; cost reduction; electro-mechanical components; reliable control; remotely operated vehicle; sampling operation; surface inspection; underwater robot; Application software; Circuits; Computer displays; Control systems; Feedback; Hardware; Inspection; Keyboards; Remotely operated vehicles; Robot control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

TENCON 2004. 2004 IEEE Region 10 Conference

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8560-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TENCON.2004.1414976

Filename

1414976