Underwater Sensing

Autonomous manipulation systems, unlike teleoperated manipulation robots that are controlled by human operators with the aid of visual and other sensory feedback, must be capable of assessing a situation, including self-calibration based on sensory information, and executing or revising a course of manipulating action without continuous human intervention.

At the task execution level, the system must be capable of acting and reacting to the environment with the extensive use of sensor data processing.

Therefore, the sensory system is one of the most critical part of an intervention AUV.

To achieve these intervention capabilities, SAUVIM is equipped with a state of the art set of underwater sensors, finalized to sense different categories of important information (position, orientation, speed, depth, bottom profile, acoustic images, target identification and position with optical cameras, acoustic trackers and more).

This equipment considerably enhances the potential value of the operation that SAUVIM may perform, from the revolutionary underwater acoustic image-mapping (a Google Earth for underwater) to the most challenging intervention tasks.

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