Development of an Underwater Robot for Sediment Soil Sampling

DOI

10.2991/icmii-15.2015.2How to use a DOI?

Keywords

sediment soil; sampler; robot; ROV.

Abstract

An underwater sediment soil sampling robot is presented in this paper. The developed robot is composed of a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV), a buoyancy regulator, a sampling corer and other parts. Differ from traditional ROVs and sampling devices, the robot moves by swinging the fins and collects soil by regulating the buoyancy. This robot keeps neutral buoyant before sampling. When it is sampling, the buoyancy regulator is activated to drive the robot to dive and insert the sampling tube into the soil. The sampling corer is optimized to suit the robot. Experiments for evaluating the motion performance of the robot is explained and the field sampling is accomplished. The sampling result proves the utility of the robot in sediment soil sampling field.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Peng Gao
AU  - Bin Zheng
AU  - Jianhong Liang
AU  - Cangsi Ren
PY  - 2015/10
DA  - 2015/10
TI  - Development of an Underwater Robot for Sediment Soil Sampling
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Mechatronics and Industrial Informatics
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 6
EP  - 11
SN  - 2352-538X
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icmii-15.2015.2
DO  - 10.2991/icmii-15.2015.2
ID  - Gao2015/10
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