Mechanical/Naval Design of an Underwater Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) for Surveillance and Inspection of Port Facilities

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan A. Rami´rez ◽  
Rafael E. Va´squez ◽  
Luis B. Gutie´rrez ◽  
Diego A. Flo´rez
Keyword(s):  
Visual Information ◽  
Computer Aided Design ◽  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Remotely Operated Vehicle ◽  
Port Facilities ◽  
Computer Aided ◽  
Computational Fluid Dynamics Cfd ◽  
High Level ◽  
Aided Design ◽  
And Control

This paper presents the mechanical/naval design process of an underwater remotely operated vehicle (ROV), required to obtain reliable visual information, used for surveillance and maintenance of ship shells and underwater structures of Colombian port facilities. The design was divided into four main subsystems: mechanical/naval, hardware, software and guidance, navigation and control. The most relevant design constraints were evaluated considering environmental conditions, dimensional restrictions, hydrostatics, hydrodynamics, degrees of freedom and the availability of instrumentation and control hardware. The mechanical/naval design was performed through an iterative process by using computational tools, including Computer Aided Design CAD, Computer Aided Engineering CAE, Computational Fluid Dynamics CFD and a high level programming environment. The obtained design ensures that the reliable operation of the robot will be achieved by using a consistent construction process. The new ROV constitutes an innovative product in Colombia, and it will be used for surveillance and oceanographic research tasks.

Development of an Underwater Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) for Surveillance and Inspection of Port Facilities

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis B. Gutierrez ◽  
Carlos A. Zuluaga ◽  
Juan A. Ramirez ◽  
Rafael E. Vasquez ◽  
Diego A. Florez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Visual Information ◽  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Pid Controllers ◽  
Remotely Operated Vehicle ◽  
Design Constraints ◽  
Computational Tools ◽  
Port Facilities ◽  
Oceanographic Research ◽  
And Control ◽  
Underwater Structures

This work addresses the development of an underwater remotely operated vehicle (ROV), required to obtain reliable visual information, used for surveillance and maintenance of ship shells and underwater structures of Colombian port facilities and oceanographic research. The most relevant design constraints were evaluated considering environmental conditions, dimensional restrictions, hydrostatics, hydrodynamics, degrees of freedom and the availability of instrumentation and control hardware. The mechanical/naval design was performed through an iterative process by using computational tools CAD/CAE/CFD. The hardware architecture was divided in three layers: instrumentation, communications and control. The software was developed using ANSI C with Embedded Linux operating system. The guidance and navigation system used the Kalman filter to estimate the state of the vehicle. The vehicle can operate in manual and semi-automatic modes. In the semi-automatic, the position of a joystick is converted into the velocity set-points that are integrated to get the yaw and depth commands for the PID controllers. The rigorous design and a consistent construction processes allowed the development of a robust and reliable robotic system that constitutes an innovative product in Colombia.

Modeling and Simulation of an Underwater Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) for Surveillance and Inspection of Port Facilities Using CFD Tools

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rau´l A. Valencia ◽  
Juan A. Rami´rez ◽  
Luis B. Gutie´rrez ◽  
Manuel J. Garci´a
Keyword(s):  
Visual Information ◽  
Computer Aided Design ◽  
3D Scanner ◽  
Remotely Operated Vehicle ◽  
Operational Conditions ◽  
Computational Fluids Dynamics ◽  
Port Facilities ◽  
Computational Fluids ◽  
Aided Design ◽  
Underwater Structures

This article presents theoretical and computational studies with Computational Fluids Dynamics (CFD) tools of an Underwater Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV), required to obtain reliable visual information, used for surveillance and maintenance of ship shells and underwater structures of Colombian port facilities. The thrust force is analyzed at the operational conditions by using CFD tools (FLUENT™, CFX™, COSMOSFLOW™) and the information about forces, torques and power of the vehicle’s thrusters is obtained. The commercial propellers were modeled by using a reverse engineering process with a 3D scanner and Computer Aided Design (CAD) software (RAPIDFORM™). The results obtained with the CFD package allowed to evaluate several operating scenarios of the vehicle that are used for feedback purposes in the design process of the ROV before it be manufactured.

Determination of the Workspace of a Three-Degrees-of-Freedom Parallel Manipulator Using a Three-Dimensional Computer-Aided-Design Software Package and the Concept of Virtual Chains1

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Johnson ◽  
Xianwen Kong ◽  
James Ritchie
Keyword(s):  
Computer Aided Design ◽  
Parallel Manipulator ◽  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Graphical Representation ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Parallel Manipulators ◽  
Workspace Analysis ◽  
Computer Aided ◽  
Aided Design

The determination of workspace is an essential step in the development of parallel manipulators. By extending the virtual-chain (VC) approach to the type synthesis of parallel manipulators, this technical brief proposes a VC approach to the workspace analysis of parallel manipulators. This method is first outlined before being illustrated by the production of a three-dimensional (3D) computer-aided-design (CAD) model of a 3-RPS parallel manipulator and evaluating it for the workspace of the manipulator. Here, R, P and S denote revolute, prismatic and spherical joints respectively. The VC represents the motion capability of moving platform of a manipulator and is shown to be very useful in the production of a graphical representation of the workspace. Using this approach, the link interferences and certain transmission indices can be easily taken into consideration in determining the workspace of a parallel manipulator.

Computer-Aided Dynamic Analysis and Simulation of Multibody Manufacturing Systems

2015 ◽  
Vol 764-765 ◽  
pp. 757-761 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yunn Lin Hwang ◽  
Jung Kuang Cheng ◽  
Van Thuan Truong
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Analysis ◽  
Computer Aided Design ◽  
Manufacturing Systems ◽  
Robot Arm ◽  
Effective Factors ◽  
Driving System ◽  
Computer Aided ◽  
Numerical Tools ◽  
Aided Design ◽  
And Control

This paper presents simulation of multibody manufacturing systems with the support of numerical tools. The dynamic and cybernetic characteristics of driving system are discussed. Simple prototype models of robot arm and machine tool’s driving system are quickly established in Computer Aided Design (CAD) software inwhich the whole specification of material, inertia and so on are involved. The prototypes therefore are simulated in RecurDyn- a Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) software. The models are driven by controllers built in Matlab/Simulink via co-simulation. The results are suitable with theory and able to exploied for expansion of complexly effective factors. The research indicates that dynamic analysis and control could be done via numerical method instead of directly dynamic equation creation for multibody manufacturing systems.

A Dual Environment for 3D Modeling With User-Defined Freeform Features

2009 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas R. Langerak ◽  
Joris S. M. Vergeest
Keyword(s):  
3D Modeling ◽  
Computer Aided Design ◽  
Target Surface ◽  
Feature Modeling ◽  
Dynamic Feature ◽  
Design Features ◽  
Computer Aided ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
High Level ◽  
Aided Design

Modeling with freeform features has become the standard in computer-aided design. Features offer a high-level approach to modeling shapes. However, in most commercial modeling packages, only a static set of freeform features is available. A new method for user-driven feature definition is presented, as well as a method to instantiate these user-defined features on a target surface. We propose the concept of a dual environment, in which the definition of a feature is maintained parallel to its instance on a target surface. This dual environment enables dynamic feature modeling, in which the user is able to change the definition of instantiated features on-the-fly.

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