Data acquisition and measurement for deep sea mining vehicle

Author

Muthuvel, P. ; Rajesh, S. ; Nidhi, V. ; Vishwanath, B.O. ; Sasikala, T. ; Jayanthi, K. ; Atmanand, M.A.

Author_Institution

Nat. Inst. of Ocean Technol., Chennai, India

fYear

2009

fDate

18-20 Nov. 2009

Firstpage

167

Lastpage

172

Abstract

Measurements and control system of a crawler based underwater mining machine integrated with data acquisition is the objective of this paper. The crawler is an underwater mining machine which is deployed at the sea bed 6000 m deep from mother ship for mining the Polymetallic nodules (PMN). However, to prove and qualify the collector crusher concept, it is proposed to carry out the test with artificial nodules at 500 m depth. The transducers and sensors mounted on it, measures the in-situ parameters of ocean and system parameters for monitoring, data logging and controlling the operation of mining machine.

Keywords

control system analysis; data acquisition; mining; oceanographic techniques; parameter estimation; underwater vehicles; Polymetallic nodules; control system; crawler; data acquisition; in-situ parameter measurement; sea mining vehicle; underwater mining machine; Control systems; Crawlers; Data mining; Marine vehicles; Optical fiber cables; Sea measurements; Transducers; DACS; Umbilical cable; Underwater mining machine;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ocean Electronics (SYMPOL), 2009 International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Cochin

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9119-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-9118-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SYMPOL.2009.5664193

Filename

5664193