On the feasibility of fully wireless remote control for underwater vehicles

Campagnaro, Filippo; Favaro, Federico; Casari, Paolo; Zorzi, Michele

doi:10.1109/acssc.2014.7094391

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“…The application layer used to control the HROV position was first presented in [118], where the controller drove the underwater vehicle along the desired trajectory by sending absolute movement commands in the form of subsequent way-points to be covered and the speed that the HROV should use to reach that way-point. The y-x displacement of the resulting path when all way-points were reached is presented in Figure 6a, while the depth position changed between 9 m and 11 m. The three acoustic relays are represented with red crosses and were deployed 3000 m apart; the first relay was depicted 3000 m from the control station, that was deployed at the origin of the axes and represented with a red circle.…”

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“…Nevertheless, the RMSE is always less than 0.6% of the distance between the HROV and the control station, that is in the order of magnitude of the existing tracking system accuracy. Still, if a smaller RMSE is required, a guard time between subsequent way-points can be employed to allow packets retransmissions [118], at the price of a longer mission duration.…”

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Wireless Remote Control for Underwater Vehicles

Campagnaro

Signori

Zorzi

2020

JMSE

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Nowadays, the increasing availability of commercial off-the-shelf underwater acoustic and non-acoustic (e.g., optical and electromagnetic) modems that can be employed for both short-range broadband and long-range low-rate communication, the increasing level of autonomy of underwater vehicles, and the refinement of their underwater navigation systems pave the way for several new applications, such as data muling from underwater sensor networks and the transmission of real-time video streams underwater. In addition, these new developments inspired many companies to start designing hybrid wireless-driven underwater vehicles specifically tailored for off-shore operations and that are able to behave either as remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) or as autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), depending on both the type of mission they are required to perform and the limitations imposed by underwater communication channels. In this paper, we evaluate the actual quality of service (QoS) achievable with an underwater wireless-piloted vehicle, addressing the realistic aspects found in the underwater domain, first reviewing the current state-of-the-art of communication technologies and then proposing the list of application streams needed for control of the underwater vehicle, grouping them in different working modes according to the level of autonomy required by the off-shore mission. The proposed system is finally evaluated by employing the DESERT Underwater simulation framework by specifically analyzing the QoS that can be provided to each application stream when using a multimodal underwater communication system specifically designed to support different traffic-based QoSs. Both the analysis and the results show that changes in the underwater environment have a strong impact on the range and on the stability of the communication link.

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Section: Nodes Deployment Position Control and Pathmentioning

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Section: Joystick and Way-point Position Controlmentioning

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Wireless Remote Control for Underwater Vehicles

Campagnaro

Signori

Zorzi

2020

JMSE

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“…Given the bit rate, data rate, correction code employed, and the transmission range, the system sets the packet delivery ratio (PDR) according to a set of look-up tables. The details of the physical layer implementation have been presented in [23], where the authors have simulated the FAU Hermes acoustic modem [24] behavior. The FAU prototype provides high bit rate communications over short ranges: with a data rate of 87 kbps, it may have the ability to transmit low-quality videos and images over its range.…”

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The DESERT underwater framework v2: Improved capabilities and extension tools

Campagnaro

Francescon

Guerra

et al. 2016

2016 IEEE Third Underwater Communications and Networking Conference (UComms)

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The DESERT Underwater emulation system (http://nautilus.dei.unipd.it/desert-underwater), originally designed for testing underwater acoustic networks, has been recently extended. The new framework now includes multi-modal communication functionalities encompassing low rate and high rate acoustics as well as optics, the capability of testing wireless telemetry for underwater equipment, a connection to the most recent version of the World Ocean Simulation System (WOSS), a modification to the RECORDS system for sea trial remote control, and an interface between external tools, e.g., Matlab, and the EvoLogics modem. In addition, experimental activities are now supported by an accurate real-time event scheduler which has been shown to support, among others, long experiments involving time-division multiple-access (TDMA)-based MAC protocols. These additional protocol schemes from the MAC to the application layer (most of which have been tested in controlled environments and sea trials) now make DESERT Underwater a comprehensive tool for underwater network simulation and experimentation. In this paper, we present the new functionalities developed over the last two years.

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“…(2014) [9] focused their research on exploring the possibility of controlling a ROV using wireless control channel by optical, acoustic, and radio-frequency underwater communication technologies, as a function of the distance between the transmitter and the receiver.Meanwhile, previous work by Arumugaraja et. al (2015) [10] has demonstrated that 433 MHz RF transceiver module can be utilized for ROV's controlling on shallow water. From these information, we can conclude that there is a possibilities for using wireless RF frequency for ROV controlling on shallow water.…”

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FIToplankton: Wireless Controlled Remotely-operated Underwater Vehicle (ROV) for Shallow Water Exploratio

Sani¹,

Siregar²,

Kurniawan³

et al. 2018

IJECE

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Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) for underwater exploration is typically controlled using umbilical cable connected to ground control station. Unfortunately, while it’s used for power distribution and data transmission, it also obstruct the movement of ROV especially for shallow water (<50 cm). This paper proposed an alternative method for controlling ROV using wireless remote control system. This work also aims to explore the possibility of using RF wireless technology between 420-450 MHz as underwater communication system. Furthermore, the control system was used to manage actuators i.e. DC motor and bilge pump for maneuvring and picking small size cargo. To help the ROV to hold on a desired, Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) is installed on board ROV within maximum deviation 0.2 m/s2. The prototype of the system has been successfully implemented and evaluated to confirm the functionality and the feasibility of the proposed approach.

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On the feasibility of fully wireless remote control for underwater vehicles

Cited by 23 publications

References 12 publications

Wireless Remote Control for Underwater Vehicles

Wireless Remote Control for Underwater Vehicles

The DESERT underwater framework v2: Improved capabilities and extension tools

FIToplankton: Wireless Controlled Remotely-operated Underwater Vehicle (ROV) for Shallow Water Exploratio

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