MARIN just tested the newly built mAUV (modular Autonomous Underwater Vehicle). The underwater video below shows a short demonstration of the full 6 degrees of freedom vehicle control of this new mAUV in the Seakeeping and Manoeuvring Basin. The images are a little shaky, thanks to the hand-held camera. The vehicle is shown in calm water, staying in a fixed position and meanwhile performing combined rotations in roll, pitch and yaw. The results of the first tests confirm most of the predictions that we made with our XMF time-domain simulation models. Future work will focus on vehicle autonomy, additional actuators and improving the control system performance at higher forward speeds.
Interested? For more informaiton contact the project team (Hans Cozijn, Bas de Kruif, Egbert Ypma and Haite van der Schaaf) .
