Towards Wireless Controlled Underwater Vehicles

This paper presents adaptation of commercially available Arduino-based LoRa radios for remote wireless command-and-control of a underwater remotely operated vehicle (ROV). The system supports half-duplex communication between the two radios and is capable of remote control of an ROV with a paired do...

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Published inGlobal Oceans 2020: Singapore – U.S. Gulf Coast pp. 1 - 5
Main Authors Cowan, Makaylah, Phillips, Charles, Sklivanitis, George
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 05.10.2020
Subjects
Sea surface
Underwater acoustics
Underwater communication
Underwater vehicles
Unmanned vehicles
Wireless communication
Wireless sensor networks
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Summary:This paper presents adaptation of commercially available Arduino-based LoRa radios for remote wireless command-and-control of a underwater remotely operated vehicle (ROV). The system supports half-duplex communication between the two radios and is capable of remote control of an ROV with a paired down message set. We present our developments to reduce message throughput and the implementation of methods to create a permission-based half-duplex LoRa radio. The system was interfaced with MAVProxy, to support a computer-based ground control station. We present the performance results from our tests in an indoor freshwater tank and the system's capability to wireless control an ROV.
DOI:10.1109/IEEECONF38699.2020.9389225