Distributed real time control systems for deep water ROV (ROSUB 6000)

Abstract

An unmanned Remotely Operable Submersible (ROSUB 6000) capable of working up to 6000 meters water depth is being jointly developed by National Institute of Ocean Technology, India and Experimental Design Bureau of Oceanological Engineering, Russia. In general ROVs are developed to perform complex offshore operations in ever increasing water depths and accordingly reached a high level of technical design. These vehicles are designed to perform multi tasks in real time operation. The distributed real time control system was designed to provide modular architecture with reliable platform for data acquisition, control and logging. This paper aims at presenting the ROV hardware and software design architecture, which has been developed and tested using National Instruments ™ Real Time hardware and LabVIEW® software for data acquisition and control. © 2010 Springer-Verlag.