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ROV Auto Positioning Midwater

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  • #4118
    DANFROV
    Keymaster

    Has anyone had any experience using Gyro / other sensors for midwater auto positioning.

    What relative accuracy would you expect.

    10 meter off seabed …. 50 m off seabed.

    DanFrov

    #30479
    mctintin
    Participant

    Been working the last 2-3 years with the Schilling UHD and it’s stationkeep.

    It uses a CDL gyro and the Workhorse DVL(Doppler Velocity Log).

    It is surprising how quickly you get used to it. Normally the ROV’s we had were fitted with could hold station upto about 28m altitude. However they did get a hire unit at one point which could stay in position about 50m off seabed.

    The downside of this is if you have a very undulating seabed, structures etc then it may cause the stationkeep to switch off.

    One of the other handy things it can do is, calculate distance over seabed, handy for surveys when you need to know length of freespans etc.

    Hope this helps

    #30480
    Glevum
    Participant

    I have used An Octans Gyro with both 1200kHz and 300kHz RDI Workhorse Navigator DVL dopplers.

    The 300kHz doppler will hold bottom lock up to 150m off the bottom.

    The 1200kHz doppler will only hold lock to 25m, but it will hold lock closer to the seabed than the 300kHz unit.

    There is also a 600kHz version, but I have not used it

    The random doppler drift is a couple of mm/s when the vehicle is stationary, there is a drift component related to vehicle velocity so as the vehicle speed increases the drift increases. The doppler accuracy is greatly improved by inputting the current local bottom sound velocity and calibrating the Doppler to the Gyro

    RDI has a new Doppler called the PAVs which claims to work to 500m altitude, but I have not tried it yet.

    When flying the ROV under closed loop control the vehicle station keeping accuracy will depend on the thruster control loop. In my experience I have seen much better station keeping on ROVs with electric thrusters than those with hydraulic ones. I have made autopilot moves in the order of 100mm steps.

    It is difficult to say what the relative accuracy is up off the seabed since you have no visual reference. Against the USBL nav the accuracy looks similar to closer to the seabed.

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