Underwater robot also known as unmanned remote control submersible, is a kind of work in the underwater limit operation robot. Underwater environment is harsh and dangerous, the depth of human diving is limited, so underwater robot has become an important tool to develop the ocean.
The rapid development of artificial intelligence and other Internet technologies has also promoted the rapid development of the underwater robot industry. The underwater robot has expanded from the military market at the beginning to the civilian and mass entertainment market, and has been widely applied.
Application areas of underwater robots
1, safety search and rescue: 1, can be used to check whether the dam, bridge pier is installed with explosives and the structure is good or bad; 2. Remote control reconnaissance, close inspection of dangerous goods; 3, underwater array to assist installation/disassembly; 4. Detection of smuggled goods on the ship's side and bottom (public security bureau, customs); 5. Observation of underwater targets, search and rescue of ruins and collapsed mines; 6. Search for underwater evidence (public security, customs); 7. Maritime rescue and salvage, offshore search;
Two, pipeline inspection: 1, can be used for municipal drinking water system in the tank, pipe, reservoir inspection; 2. Sewage/waterlogging pipeline and sewer inspection; 3, foreign oil pipeline inspection; 4. Cross-river and cross-river pipeline inspection;
1. Hull maintenance; Underwater anchor, propeller and bottom exploration; 2. Inspection of wharf and wharf pile foundation, bridge and underwater part of dam; 3. Channel barrier removal and port operation; 4. Maintenance of underwater structure of drilling platform and offshore oil engineering;
4. Scientific Research and Teaching: 1. Observation, research and teaching of water environment and underwater organisms; 2. Marine investigation; 3. Observation under ice;
5. Underwater entertainment: 1. Underwater TV shooting and underwater photography; 2, diving, boating, yachting; 3. Watch divers and select suitable sites before diving;
1. Nuclear power plant reactor inspection, pipeline inspection, foreign matter detection and removal; 2. Maintenance of hydropower station lock; 3, hydropower DAMS, DAMS and DAMS maintenance (sand-discharging hole mouth, barrage, drainage overhaul);
Archaeology: underwater archaeology, underwater shipwreck investigation.
Fishery: deep-water cage fishery breeding, artificial fishing reef investigation.
Unmanned submarine without cable is still in the research and trial stage, and some key technical problems need to be solved. Unmanned submarine without cable will be developed to be remote and intelligent, and its range of activities will be within a radius of 250 ~ 5000 km.
This requires that the unmanned submarine without cable has a power source to ensure a long time of work. In the control and information processing system, image recognition, artificial intelligence technology, large capacity knowledge base system, and improve the ability of information processing and precision navigation and positioning of the following ability. If these problems can be solved, then unmanned untethered submersibles can be truly intelligent robots in the ocean. The emergence and wide use of Marine intelligent robots provide technical guarantee for human beings to enter the ocean and engage in various Marine industrial activities.
