A study on the key technology of autonomous underwater vehicle-AUV's self rescue beaconing system

Abstract

It is dangerous for Autonomous UnderwaterVehicle (AUV) to work in the deep sea. so varies of risk may be faced by an AUV when working in such environment. Thus, it costs a lot of humanbeing resource to develop an AUV while the data or the collection that attained by the working of an AUV in the deep sea is valuable. Especially for an AUV which carries person, the safety of itself is much more important. This Paper introduces an AUV underwater robot system based on MSP430 microcontroller. The technology of miniaturization, low power consumption, airproof and reliability are given in detailed. It will be disastrous if the AUV is lost in the sea and, at the mean time, an expense of oceanic research and development. So it is extremely significant to explore the self-rescue system for AUV. © 2009 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.