An underwater robot, also known as an unmanned remotely operated vehicle (ROV), is an extreme operational robot that works underwater. The underwater environment is harsh and dangerous, and human diving depth is limited, so underwater robots have become an important tool for developing the ocean.
The rapid development of artificial intelligence and other Internet technologies has also propelled the underwater robotics industry by leaps and bounds, and underwater robots have expanded from the initial military market to the civilian and mass entertainment consumer market, with a wide range of applications.
Application areas of underwater robots
A, security search and rescue: 1, can be used to check whether the dam, bridge piers on the installation of explosives and structural good or bad situation; 2, remote reconnaissance, dangerous goods near the inspection; 3, underwater base array to assist in the installation / demolition; 4, ship side, ship bottom smuggled goods detection (public security, customs); 5, underwater target observation, ruins, collapse mine search and rescue, etc.; 6, search for underwater evidence (public security, customs); 7, marine rescue salvage , offshore search.
Second, pipeline inspection: 1, can be used for municipal drinking water system in the tank, water pipe, reservoir inspection; 2, sewage / drainage pipeline, sewer inspection; 3, foreign oil pipeline inspection; 4, cross-river, cross-river pipeline inspection.
Third, the ship river marine oil 1, ship hull maintenance; underwater anchor, propulsion, ship bottom probe; 2, wharf and wharf pile foundation, bridge, dam underwater part of the inspection; 3, channel drainage, port operations; 4, drilling platform underwater structure maintenance, marine oil engineering.
Fourth, scientific research and teaching: 1, water environment, underwater biological observation, research and teaching; 2, marine expedition; 3, under ice observation.
V. Underwater entertainment: 1, underwater television filming, underwater photography; 2, diving, boating, yachting; 3, watching over divers, the selection of suitable sites before diving.
VI, energy industry 1, nuclear power plant reactor inspection, pipeline inspection, foreign body detection and removal; 2, hydroelectric power station locks maintenance; 3, hydropower dams, reservoir dam maintenance (sand drainage cavern, barrage, drainage channel maintenance).
Seven, archaeology: underwater archaeology, underwater shipwreck inspection.
VIII. Fisheries: deep-water net box fishery culture, artificial fishing reef investigation.
Unmanned cableless submersible is still in the research and trial stage, there are still some key technical issues to be solved. Unmanned cableless submersible will develop to remote and intelligent, and its activity range is within a radius of 250-5000 km. This requires that this unmanned cableless submersible has a power source that can guarantee long working hours. In the control and information processing system, image recognition, artificial intelligence technology, a large-capacity knowledge base system, and the ability to improve information processing and precise navigation and positioning of the follow-sense capability are used. If all these problems can be solved, then the unmanned cableless submersible can be a veritable intelligent robot of the ocean. The emergence and widespread use of marine intelligent robots provide a technical guarantee for humans to enter the ocean to engage in various marine industrial activities.
