Authors
Xingian Bian, Zheping Yan, Tao Chen, D.L. Yu, and Yufei Zhao
Review
This article is an extremely fundamental element in ocean engineering. The article was accepted in the ocean engineering body in 2012. The article pays exclusive concern on the design, implementation, as well as concrete assessment of autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV). The article revolves around the main role of the AUV, which is conduct survey in vibrant, mainly unfamiliar, as well as unsafe environment, as well as operational constraints in the environment.
The outlined mission of the survey is linked to multiple areas and multi-sensors. These are mainly critical for large forms of survey in oceans, where surveyors aim at obtaining various parameters on the basis of various objectives of the survey.
The major role that this project tries to conduct is the concrete design as well as development of the orderly on-board architecture of the AUV. Although, there are various forces that are extremely useful in the survey the architecture remains exclusive dependent on Petri nets (PN), which is usually autonomously controlled as well as distributed. This gives the AUV massive ability to come up with exclusive designs that are most applicable in the modern engineering world.
In the AUV survey, various agents have been of concrete significance. Various agents have been of exclusive contribution in development for mission management as well as control. Communication among agents is an extremely critical element and needs to be respected. Proper communication is an avenue that partners must respect if the success of their mission was to be realized. In this case, the highest rank PN and lower sub-PNs each with unique design of events were used together with exclusively detailed elements of functioning.
The AUV is recognized for the provision of crucial merits in most underwater activities. It is an invention in the engineering sector where various activities are undertaken. It offers exclusive support for oceanic search, dam inspection, under-ice exploration, as well as pipe survey. Academics, governments and various establishments are main dependants of AUVs in their various occupations. However, other people use the AUVs for commercial reasons.
In most cases, the development of AUV is dependent on the requirements of a given region. In particular, the environment of a given region is paramount in the design process. This is following the complexity and simplicity of some environments. Some environments will call for low density AUV commodities while complex environments may seek for high density AUVs.
AUV is particularly significant in assisting in the establishment of projects such as the ocean environment survey (OES) in the collection of information linked to the ocean. An outstanding example of a form of AUV that has been extremely useful in research for certain information from the ocean is the Best Sea Assembly AUV (BSA-AUV). This form of AUV is an improvement whereby it has been linked to ocean survey sensors making it more reliable than other forms of AUV.
The BSA-AUV is a representation of a complex system in terms its hardware as well as its distribution system which is software driven. Although, there exist manual AUV systems, improvements have been launched where autonomous AUV control systems have been established. Also, the development of AUV has been heightened through agent model, which is mainly inclined to knowledge of users as well as their input capacity. The agent BSA-AUV is made of four main parts; switch, input port, kernel, as well as output port. Each of these parts has been developed uniquely to play exclusive role that would make the entire system reliable. This is a sign of well thought and applied engineering techniques aimed at ensuring that no element or principle of engineering has been ignored.
While designing the BSA-AUV, it is always wise to pay exclusive attention to the mission of the survey. The area within which the BSA-AUV is to be used needs to be supportive in terms of safety where all obstacles are eliminated in the environment. At this point, two points, which are the entrance point PEZ and exit points PSZ must be considered paramount. In most cases, the mission starts at point PO and ends at another point which needs to be a distance away from the PO known as the PF.
The success of a mission is dependent on its management as well as control. The control is entrusted the role of guiding the AUV movements in all situations. The control of a mission usually depends on the intensity of the mission.
The presentation indicated in this article is a representation of what happens in the engineering world. This is a sector that calls for exclusive creativity as well as willingness to witness improvement on structures. The AUV designers have been in a position to bring proper presentation of what engineering should entail. The article has extensively analyzed a new survey mission concerning autonomous underwater vehicle. Proper planning has been exhibited with exhaustive application of architectural knowledge that makes the AUV successful.
