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Investigation on Construction Process and Efficiency of Underwater Construction Equipment for Rubble Mound Leveling works (수중 고르기 장비의 건설 공정 및 효율성 분석)

  • Won, Deokhee;Jang, In-Sung;Shin, Changjoo
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.17 no.5
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    • pp.372-378
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    • 2016
  • A mound was constructed to install a caisson and sofa blocks underwater. The mound riprap, which were of uniform grade, size, shape, and specific gravity, formed the foundation for the support superstructure. Also, rubble leveling works were performed before installing structures such as caissons. In this study, underwater construction equipment was developed with a remotely controlled operating system and underwater environment monitoring system for unmanned underwater rubble leveling work. The performance of the developed equipment was verified using on-land and underwater tests. In addition to the performance verification, the construction process and economic efficiency of the equipment should be checked before applying it to the real construction field for commercial purposes. In this paper, a construction process using the developed equipment was proposed and compared with the existing rubble leveling method. The results demonstrated that the new construction method has higher economic efficiency and safety than the existing construction method.

A Study on Maintainability Improvement for Underwater Weapon Training Vehicle (수중무기 훈련탄의 정비성 향상방안 연구)

  • Jeong, Jinseob
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.111-117
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    • 2013
  • In this paper, we have proposed novel technique to improve maintainability for training vehicle of underwater weapon system. In case of under water weapon, the fire procedure is related with operation of expulsion system in submarines. So the submarine crews should practice the complex fire procedure of weapon system by using training vehicle, which is safer and cheaper than operational weapon. After emitted from submarine, the training vehicle rise to the surface and should be withdrawn from the sea. The recovered training vehicle is transported to maintenance depot and pass through the recycling procedure including disassembling the vehicle, data acquisition & analysis, battery charge, replacing expandable components, testing the captive equipment, and assembling the vehicle. The disassembling & assembling of training vehicle which is composed of watertight section or airframe, is time-consuming work. So in this paper, we have studied the elements of recycling procedure and propose the method to exclude the assembling & disassembling work for maintainability improvement.

Underwater Acoustic Mavlink Communication for Swarming AUVS

  • Muller, Yukiko;Oshiro, Shiho;Motohara, Takuma;Kinjo, Atsushi;Suzuki, Taisaku;Wada, Tomohisa
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.277-283
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    • 2021
  • The objective of this project is to conduct an underwater survey. The primary goal is to develop a device that can achieve the desired output under test conditions. For this reason, certain practical considerations must be taken into account, and the implementation is then developed to be carried out to obtain stable performance with the available hardware based on that experiment. The experiment was performed via BlueROV2 (Remotely Operated Vehicle) using RaspberryPi and softwares such as QGC (QGroundControl) and ArduPilot. This paper explains the work, the results with the collected data and how we implemented the work is presented in the end. The intention of this experiment is to connect two PCs using RaspberryPi with MAVLink communication using a Commercial-Off-The-Shelf device.

AUV Platform Design for Unmanned remotely Construction and Harbor Infrastructure (항만 실시간 감시 및 시공지원을 위한 AUV 플랫폼 설계)

  • Park, Yong-Gu;Lee, Young-Pil;Li, Ji-Hong
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.16 no.6
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    • pp.1089-1094
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    • 2021
  • In order to support the restoration and construction work of port infrastructure facilities damaged or damaged due to disasters and disasters, it is linked with work equipment based on the performance of duties such as regular patrol in the port, monitoring the underwater environment, and acquisition of underwater configuration information in the port, Define content related to AUV platform analysis and design that can support construction.

Controller Design to Coordinate Autonomous Unmanned Surface and Underwater Vehicles (자율형 무인 수상정 및 잠수정의 군집 주행을 위한 제어기 설계)

  • Lee, Jae-Yong
    • Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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    • v.26 no.3
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    • pp.6-12
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    • 2012
  • In this paper, addressed is the control problem of generating a formation for a group of unmanned surface and underwater vehicles. The formation control scheme proposed in this work is based on a fusion of theleader-follower and virtual reference approaches. This scheme gives a formation constraint representation that is independent of the number of vehicles in the formation and the resulting control algorithm is scalable. One of the most important features in controller design is the ability of the controller to globally and exponentially stabilize the formation errors defined by the formation constraints. The proposed controller is based on feedback linearization, and the formation errors are shown to be globally and exponentially stable in the sense of Lyapunov.

Development and Test of a Tile Projector for Control of Low-frequency Underwater Echoes (저주파 수중 반향음 제어를 위한 타일형 프로젝터의 개발 및 성능시험)

  • Woo, Sangbeom;Lee, Jae-Wan;Ohm, Won-Suk;Kim, Wan-Gu;Kang, Hwi-Suk;Yoon, Suk Wang;Seo, Youngsoo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2014.10a
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    • pp.630-634
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    • 2014
  • In this paper, a tile projector was developed for the control of low-frequency underwater echoes. The projector was designed to cover a wide area such as the hull of a submarine, and to have a relatively thin thickness. As a preliminary work for active echo control, the performance of the projector was measured in an anechoic water tank. The transmitting voltage response as well as the passive echo reduction were measured to evaluate the performance as an underwater projector.

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Development of Analysis Model for Underwater Acoustic Performance of Multi-Layered Coatings Containing Visco-Elastic Composites (점탄성 복합재가 포함된 다층구조 코팅재의 수중음향성능 해석모델 개발)

  • Kim, Jae Ho
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.25-39
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    • 2018
  • In this paper, an integrated analysis model for evaluating the underwater acoustic performance of the multilayered acoustic coatings containing visco-elastic composite layers with hollow glass microspheres is described. The model uses the effective medium theory considering the acoustic scattering and resonance effects of the inclusions. Also, the model incorporates the compressive deformation mechanism associated with hydrostatic pressure. The technique developed in this work was used as the acoustic layer design and performance analysis tools for the practical hull coatings and acoustic baffles in Korean next generation submarines.

Linear Model Predictive Control of 6-DOF Remotely Operated Underwater Vehicle Using Nonlinear Robust Internal-loop Compensator (비선형 강인 내부루프 보상기를 이용한 6자유도 원격조종 수중로봇의 선형 모델예측 제어)

  • Junsik Kim;Yuna Choi;Dongchul Lee;Youngjin Choi
    • The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.8-15
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    • 2024
  • This paper proposes a linear model predictive control of 6-DOF remotely operated underwater vehicles using nonlinear robust internal-loop compensator (NRIC). First, we design a integrator embedded linear model prediction controller for a linear nominal model, and then let the real model follow the values calculated through forward dynamics. This work is carried out through an NRIC and in this process, modeling errors and external disturbance are compensated. This concept is similar to disturbance observer-based control, but it has the difference that H optimality is guaranteed. Finally, tracking results at trajectory containing the velocity discontinuity point and the position tracking performance in the disturbance environment is confirmed through the comparative study with a traditional inverse dynamics PD controller.

Study on the design and the control of an underwater construction robot for port construction (항만공사용 수중건설로봇의 기구설계 및 제어에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Tae-Sung;Kim, Chi-Hyo;Lee, Min-Ki
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.39 no.3
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    • pp.253-260
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    • 2015
  • There are many efforts to mechanize the process for underwater port construction due to the severe and adverse working environment. This paper presents an underwater construction robot to level rubbles on the seabed for port construction. The robot is composed of a blade and a multi-functional arm to flatten the rubble mound with respect to the reference level at uneven terrain and to dig and dump the rubbles. This research analyzes the kinematics of the blade and the multi-functional arm including track and swing motions with respect to a world coordinate assigned to a reference depth sensor. This analysis is conducted interfacing with the position and orientation sensors installed at the robot. A hydraulic control system is developed to control a track, a blade and a multi-functional arm for rubble leveling work. The experimental results of rubble leveling work conducted by the robot are presented in land and subsea. The working speed of the robot is eight times faster than that of a human diver, and the working quality is acceptable. The robot is expected to have much higher efficiency in deep water where a human diver is unable to work.

Dynamic Manipulability Analysis of Underwater Robotic Arms with Joint Velocities (관절속도를 가지는 수중로봇팔의 동적 조작도 해석)

  • JEON BONG-HWAN;LEE JIHONG;LEE PAN-MOOK
    • Proceedings of the Korea Committee for Ocean Resources and Engineering Conference
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    • 2004.05a
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    • pp.204-209
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    • 2004
  • This paper describes dynamic manipulability analysis of robotic arms moving in viscous fluid. The Manipulability is a functionality of manipulator system in a given configuration and under the limits of joint ability with respect to the tasks required to bt performed. To investigate the manipulability of underwater robotic arms, a modeling and analysis method are presented. The dynamic equation of motion of underwater manipulator is derived from the Lagrange - Euler equation considering with the hydraulic forces caused by added mass, buoyancy and hydraulic drag. The hydraulic drag term in the equation: is established as analytical form using Denavit - Hartenberg (D-H) link coordination of manipulator. Two analytical approaches based on Manipulability Ellipsoid are presented to visualize the manipulability of robotic arm moving in viscous fluid. The one is scaled ellipsoid which transforms the boundary of joint torque to acceleration boundary of end-effector by normalizing the torque in joint space while the other is shifted ellipsoid which depicts total acceleration boundary of end-effector by shifting the ellipsoid in work space. An analysis example of 2-link manipulator with proposed analysis scheme is presented to validate the method.

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