Development of a low cost Autonomous Underwater Vehicle for Antarctic exploration

Author

Cadena, A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., ESPOL, Guayaquil, Ecuador

fYear

2011

fDate

11-12 April 2011

Firstpage

76

Lastpage

81

Abstract

This paper describes the design and construction of a Low Cost Autonomous Underwater Vehicle prototype for Antarctic Exploration to use it in the Ecuadorian Expedition to the Scientific Base Pedro Vicente Maldonado in Antarctica. This AUV can work as a platform to transport scientific payload in a determined path. The AUV length is less than 2m. Results of some systems of the AUV from laboratory, sea trials and Antarctic environment are show.

Keywords

geophysical prospecting; mobile robots; path planning; prototypes; remotely operated vehicles; underwater vehicles; Antarctic environment; Antarctic exploration; Ecuadorian expedition; low cost autonomous underwater vehicle development; scientific base Pedro Vicente Maldonado; scientific payload; sea trial; Antarctica; Navigation; Ocean temperature; Robots; Sensors; Underwater vehicles; Vehicles; Antarctica; Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV); Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA); Guidance; Inertial Navigation System (INS); Navigation and Control (GNC); Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Technologies for Practical Robot Applications (TePRA), 2011 IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Woburn, MA

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-482-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TEPRA.2011.5753485

Filename

5753485