Marine Robot and

ICT-248497 Dexterous Manipula n for

Enabling Mul purpose
http://www.irs.uji.es/trident/ Inteven on Missions

“Marine Robots and Dexterous Manipulation for

Enabling Autonomous Underwater
Multipurpose Intervention Missions”

By Pedro J Sanz
TRIDENT Coordinator
 Marine Robot and
Dexterous Manipula n for
What is the unique contribution of TRIDENT? Enabling Mul purpose
Inteven on Missions

Represents a unique lightweight AUV for multipurpose

intervention missions able to operate in shallow
waters with a high autonomy degree

A new benchmark on “The search and recovery

marine robotics of a black-box mockup”

12/03/2014 ERF 2014 (Rovereto, Italia) 2

 Marine Robot and
Dexterous Manipula n for
Experimental validation and benchmarking Enabling Mul purpose
Inteven on Missions

Final Experiments in a harbour (Sóller, Mallorca, Spain; Oct 2012)

 Marine Robot and
Dexterous Manipula n for
Experimental validation and benchmarking Enabling Mul purpose
Inteven on Missions

Sóller

http://youtu.be/iq5ePDKQB1g
 Marine Robot and
Dexterous Manipula n for
TRIDENT & SRA/MAR connection Enabling Mul purpose
Inteven on Missions

CIVIL ROBOTS
CIVIL ROBOTS
Marine ROBOTS
Current Key Projects

12/03/2014 ERF 2014 (Rovereto, Italia) 5

 Marine Robot and
Dexterous Manipula n for
Re-use existing resources Enabling Mul purpose
Inteven on Missions

TRITON
(Spanish Coordinated Project)

FP7-MORPH
Know-How & Resources

FP7-PANDORA
• I-AUV
• UWSim
• Others

12/03/2014 ERF 2014 (Rovereto, Italia) 6

 Marine Robot and

Concluding Remarks Dexterous Manipula n for

Enabling Mul purpose
Inteven on Missions

• From TRIDENT know-how to end-users requiring

manipulation skills

(1) Offshore Industry (2) Ocean Observatories (3) Marine Science

7
(4) Archaeology (5) Geology (6) Search and Rescue
TRIDENT - ERF
12th March 2014
Hugh Ferguson
Who are Subsea 7

17-Mar-14 Page 9
Core business segments

Engineering, construction, Services over the life of a

installation and field’s production, including
procurement of Subsea inspection, repair and
Umbilical's, Risers and maintenance.
Flowlines.
Subsea 7 performs this work
Subsea 7 targets this in Europe; Africa; Gulf of
segment globally. Mexico and Australia and
will target specific countries.
SURF Life-of-Field

Fabrication and installation

Addition of modules on new
of fixed platforms and their
platforms and refurbishment
associated pipelines in
of topsides of an existing
non-harsh environments.
platform or FPSO.
Subsea 7 targets this
Subsea 7 has traditionally
segment in Africa. Entry
only targeted this segment in
into Mexico considered for
Africa.
positioning for deep water.

Conventional Hook Up

17-Mar-14 Page 10
Where we operate

We believe in strong local, integrated teams, leveraging

our global know-how and resources.

17-Mar-14 Page 11
Autonomous Inspection Vehicle

• Depth Rating 3,000m

• Dimensions 1.7m (L) 1.3m (w) 0.8m (h)
• Max Excursion 40Km, 24 hour
• Speed 2kts (nominal)

• Inspection sensors 3D forward looking sonar &

colour video camera.

Profiling sonar & downward

look colour camera.

• Communications Acoustic, Wi-Fi, Satellite.

• Navigation Dead reckoning, feature

identification using 3D World
model.

17-Mar-14 Page 12
Technical Pedigree

PAIV

SPINAV
Autotracker

25 years of Autonomous Underwater 30 years of ROV design build

Vehicle R&D for Military, Marine and operational experience
Science and Offshore Tasks, 10 years AUV development

17-Mar-14 Page 13
Technology Roadmap
MARK I MARK II MARK III MARK IV
MODEL Mark I + MMS Level II
Visual Inspection GVI Mark II + Contact Mark III + V Light
Inspection Additional
(single camera) Sensors Intervention
Non-Contact Sensors

Operations Scenario SEE SENSE TOUCH DO

Inspection GVI

SIMOPS

FPSO Deployment

Post Hurricane Infrastructure Inspection

(GVI)
Ad-hoc Anomaly Investigation 3

Inspection CVI 2

Hull Inspection 4

Post Hurricane 3

Contact Inspection incl NDT 3

Full Field ( tooling ops) 4

Under Ice 5

Proven Technology Method identified technology to be proven

Product development required Technology gap to be closed
Severity rating relative to category 1-5 (five is hardest)

17-Mar-14 Page 14