• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.221-226
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• 2016

An attitude controller for a 6-DOF hovering autonomous underwater vehicle (HAUV) is implemented. We add a vertical thruster, an underwater camera, a wireless communication device, and a DVL to the HAUV that was developed a year ago. The HAUV is composed of 5 thrusters, 2 servo-motors, and 4 apparatus parts. Two rotating thrusters control the surge, heave, and roll of the vehicle. The vertical thruster controls the pitch, and two horizontal thrusters control the sway and yaw of the vehicle. The HAUV’s movement in each direction is controlled by 6 PID controllers. Each PID controller controls the propulsive force and angle of a thruster. In a horizontal and vertical movement experiment, we showed the feasibility of the proposed controller by maintaining a given depth and heading angle of the HAUV.

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.194-200
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• 2016

Recently, UUVs (unmanned underwater vehicles) have increasingly been applied in various science and engineering applications. In-water inspection, which used to be performed by human divers, is a potential application for UUVs. In particular, the operational safety and performance of in-water inspection missions can be greatly improved by using an underwater robotic vehicle. The capabilities of hovering maneuvers and automatic image mosaicking are essential for autonomous underwater visual inspection. This paper presents the development of a hover-capable autonomous underwater vehicle system for autonomous in-water inspection, which includes both a hardware platform and operational software algorithms. Some results from an experiment in a model basin are presented to demonstrate the feasibility of the developed system and algorithms.

• 한국항행학회논문지
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.171-178
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• 2017

본 논문에서는 위성항법장치 (GPS; global positioning system)를 보조센서로 사용하는 위치추정알고리즘의 성능을 검증하기 위해 호버링타입 무인잠수정에 알고리즘을 적용하여 실제 해역에서 실험을 수행하였다. 적용된 알고리즘은 무인잠수정에 탑재된 도플러 속도계 (DVL; doppler velocity logger), TCM (tilt-compensated compass module)을 이용한 추측항법의 시간에 따라 누적되는 위치오차를 개선하기 위한 알고리즘이다. 수면에서 GPS 위치정보를 수신하여 무인잠수정의 위치와 진북에 대한 TCM의 방향각 바이어스 오차를 추정하고, 이를 통해 진북 (geodetic north) 기준의 좌표계에 대한 추측항법을 수행한다. 실제 해역에서 방향각 제어 실험을 수행한 결과, 위치추정알고리즘을 통해 기존 추측항법의 위치오차가 개선되고 TCM의 방향각 바이어스 오차를 추정함을 확인하였다.