ROV INFINITELY EXPANDABLE SERIAL CONNECTION SYSTEM OF REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLE

• Main Authors: SONG YU JAE, SEO JUNG MIN, KANG HYOUN, SHIN HUI CHEOL, BAEK SEUNG JAE, KWON O SOON
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Korean
• Published: 14.05.2021
• Subjects: CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; EQUIPMENT FOR DWELLING OR WORKING UNDER WATER; GENERATION; INSTALLATION OF ELECTRIC CABLES OR LINES, OR OF COMBINEDOPTICAL AND ELECTRIC CABLES OR LINES; LAUNCHING, HAULING-OUT, OR DRY-DOCKING OF VESSELS; LIFE-SAVING IN WATER; MEANS FOR SALVAGING OR SEARCHING FOR UNDERWATER OBJECTS; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION; RELATED EQUIPMENT; SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; TRANSPORTING

Disclosed is an ROV-expandable series connection system. The ROV-expandable series connection system according to the present invention allows one ROV among two or n number of ROVs, which comprise a communication unit, a detection unit, a filming unit and a propulsion unit to be workable under the water or on the sea bottom, to be connected to a mothership or a hub connected to the mothership by means of a tether cable. The first ROV connected to the mothership or the hub and other ROVs maintain a predetermined distance from each other to be successively and serially connected to each other by means of an auxiliary tether cable. The present invention further comprises an integrated control unit which is disposed at the mothership, and constructed such that each of the serially connected ROVs may receive the image data with respect to each other, which is acquired by the filming of the filming unit, by means of the tether cable and the auxiliary tether cable. The integrated control unit is characterized by controlling each of the ROVs by recognizing the state including the location, the work status and the posture of the ROVs based on the image data. Therefore, the integrated operation of the ROVs can be easily performed. ROV의 무한확장이 가능한 직렬연결 시스템이 개시된다. 본 발명에 따른 ROV의 무한확장이 가능한 직렬연결 시스템는, 통신부, 감지부, 촬영부 및 추진부를 구비하여 수중 또는 해저에서 작업 가능하도록 된 2개 내지 n개의 알오브이(ROV)들 중에서, 하나의 알오브이(ROV)가 테더 케이블에 의해 모선 또는 모선과 연결된 허브와 연결되고, 상기 모선 또는 허브와 연결된 첫 번째의 상기 알오브이(ROV)와 나머지 알오브이(ROV)들이 서로 설정된 거리를 유지하여 보조 테더 케이블에 의해 서로 직렬로 연이어 연결되며, 직렬 연결된 각각의 상기 알오브이(ROV)들이 상기 촬영부로 촬영하여 획득한 서로에 대한 영상자료를 상기 테더 케이블 및 보조 테더 케이블을 통하여 수신하도록 이루어져 상기 모선에 마련되는 통합제어부를 포함하고, 상기 통합제어부는, 상기 영상자료를 토대로 상기 알오브이(ROV)들의 위치, 작업정도 및 자세를 포함하는 상태를 파악하여 각 상기 알오브이(ROV)들을 제어하도록 된 것을 특징으로 한다.