WIT Press

New Designs Of Underwater Vehicles From Underwater Technology Department, Technical University Of Gdansk

Price

Free (open access)

Volume

12

Pages

8

Published

1995

Size

702 kb

Paper DOI

10.2495/MT950671

Copyright

WIT Press

Author(s)

L. Matuszewski

Abstract

New designs have been recently added to wide range of submersibles developed at Underwater Technology Department. After completion of KORAL AT ROY, an autonomous vehicle prototype, for Baltic Sea environment monitoring, is being currently developed. Paper describes operational requirements for the craft and its principal components Vehicle control by remote means is not discarded however This technology has been adopted for a sea mine destruction system with disposable low cost vehicle used for mine identification and destruction. Other interesting development is the newest version of diver towing vehicle. The vehicle is constantly improved and modified to different requirements regarding range and special equipment. The l

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