Control
Station for Remus 6000 Autonomous Underwater System
For
this paper the control station of the REMUS 6000 Autonomous Underwater System (AUS)
has been selected. REMUS 6000 is designed to work until 6000 meters underwater
and 22 hours of mission. This system has a suit of reconfigurable sensors and
is equipped with standard sensors such as acoustic modem, Inertial-Navigation
System (INS), Side-Scan Sonar, Pressure, Altitude, Iridium, GPS, and Wi-Fi. Optionally,
the system can be equipped with additional sensors, according the requirements
of the missions, such as camera, ECO sensors, and acoustic
REMUS
6000 for operations uses software of control called Vehicle Interface Program
(VIP) for mission planning, operations, data analysis, and maintenance. VIP
software is a very high intuitive Graphical User Interface GUI that runs over
any PC or laptop with operative system Windows. GUI mission planning includes
important features such as “an integrated text editor to build a mission file,
a map view that illustrate the planned mission for review, automatic mission
checking, launch and recovery system, communication and localization system,
quick look indicators” (Kongsberg, 2016 ).
Post mission analysis includes: “Navigation post processing, Bathymetric
processing, quality control, 3D view generation, Side scan sonar processing,
synthetic aperture sonar processing” (Kongsberg, 2016) The control station has
interface with an “Acoustic Control System” that let the communications with
the REMUS 6000 while is underwater; also, a gateway-buoy is available to get
link with the REMUS 6000 while is underwater.
The
control station can manage mission planning and post-processing applications
for different field such as Marine, Commercial, and defense. In Marine Research
Applications are: “Fisheries Research & Habitat Mapping, Under Ice, Marine
Archaeology, Deep Sea Ecology / Seabed Investigation”(Kongsberg, 2016)
Commercial applications are: “Emergency
Response, Water Quality, Ecosystems Assessment, Deep Sea Mining, EEZ Survey,
Asset Location, Marine Archaeology” (Kongsberg, 2016). Defense applications are: “Organic Mine
Countermeasures, Hydrographic Survey, Area Search, Surveillance &
Reconnaissance” (Kongsberg, 2016).
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Interesting write up. I did not realize the REMUS could communicate with its ground station while underwater. Do you know what kind of range it has, or how much the gateway-buoy can extend its range? Thanks for sharing.
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