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Intelligent navigation and control of a prototype autonomous underwater vehicle for automated inspection of aquaculture net pen cages

Livanos Georgios, Zervakis Michail, Chalkiadakis Vaggelis, Moirogiorgou Konstantia, Giakos George C., Papandroulakis Nikos

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URIhttp://purl.tuc.gr/dl/dias/9B479A2D-E2C0-4DD7-831D-54325C796A17-
Identifierhttps://doi.org/10.1109/IST.2018.8577180-
Identifierhttps://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8577180-
Languageen-
Extent6 pagesen
TitleIntelligent navigation and control of a prototype autonomous underwater vehicle for automated inspection of aquaculture net pen cagesen
CreatorLivanos Georgiosen
CreatorΛιβανος Γεωργιοςel
CreatorZervakis Michailen
CreatorΖερβακης Μιχαηλel
CreatorChalkiadakis Vaggelisen
CreatorMoirogiorgou Konstantiaen
CreatorΜοιρογιωργου Κωνσταντιαel
CreatorGiakos George C.en
CreatorPapandroulakis Nikosen
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineersen
Content SummaryAquaculture is one of the fastest growing food sectors worldwide providing more than 50% of world fish consumption. Towards sustainable development, aquaculture ought to design and implement technical solutions for the efficient management of farms, thus improving fish performance and decreasing operational costs, human effort and environmental impact. For this, periodic inspection of fish-cages along with early warning systems are required, functionalities that small-sized underwater vehicles can provide. In this paper, an efficient methodology for intelligent navigation of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) architecture is presented, yielding to a useful tool with advanced capabilities in terms of automated manipulation via real-time optical recognition approaches, miniaturization of sensors and processing units, selective monitoring, data recording/transmission operations and proper parameter calculations for further offline-analysis of captured information. The proposed AUV system constitutes an increased Technology Readiness Level version of the preliminary prototype designed earlier by our group, incorporating additional modules and application capabilities, focusing on regular periodic fish-cage net inspection in terms of net holes and fouling. The optical navigation scheme has been tested in laboratory installations under numerous scenarios so as to determine the factors affecting its robustness and efficiency. Results extracted under the validation procedure in operational conditions indicate that the proposed framework can prove a cost-effective, flexible and operative solution for aquaculture industry, enabling the transfer of operations further offshore.en
Type of ItemΠλήρης Δημοσίευση σε Συνέδριοel
Type of ItemConference Full Paperen
Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
Date of Item2019-05-22-
Date of Publication2018-
SubjectNavigationen
SubjectOptical sensorsen
SubjectAquacultureen
SubjectInspectionen
SubjectOptical imagingen
SubjectMonitoringen
SubjectFishen
SubjectNet inspectionen
SubjectAutonomous underwater vehiclesen
SubjectAutomated navigationen
SubjectMachine visionen
SubjectOptical recognitionen
SubjectRemote operationen
Bibliographic CitationG. Livanos, M. Zervakis, V. Chalkiadakis, K. Moirogiorgou, G. Giakos and N. Papandroulakis, "Intelligent navigation and control of a prototype autonomous underwater vehicle for automated inspection of aquaculture net pen cages," in IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques, 2018. doi: 10.1109/IST.2018.8577180en

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