Evaluation of Underwater Cable Burying ROV through Sea Trial at East Sea⁎This research was supported by the project titled 'Maritime equipment research result application promotion project', funded by the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries (Field Demonstration and Industrialization of Heavy Duty ROV Technology). Issue 2 (2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Cho, Gun Rae; Lee, Mun-Jik; Kang, Hyungjoo; Ki, Geonhui; Kim, Min-Gyu; Li, Ji-Hong
• Is Part Of: IFAC-PapersOnLine. Volume 53:Issue 2(2020)
• Page Start: 9658
• Page End: 9663
• Publication Date: 2020
• Subjects: Underwater cable burial -- heavy-duty underwater robot -- sea trial -- URI-T(Underwater Robotics It's Trencher) -- ROV(Remotely Operated Vehicle); Automatic control -- Periodicals; 629.805
• DOI: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2020.12.2613
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2405-8963

Abstract

Abstract: Underwater cable burying is one of main cable protection methods in the offshore cable installation. In this paper, the performance evaluation of an underwater cable burying robot, named URI-T, through the sea trial is addressed. URI-T, the first heavy-duty underwater robot for cable burying tasks developed in South Korea, is designed to perform burying tasks and maintenance tasks for underwater cables and small-size pipes at the sea bed of 2, 500m water depth. URI-T includes water-jetting systems and cable detection sensors for cable burying tasks, and employes mainpulators and tools for cable maintenance tasks. The sea trial at the East Sea having 500m water depth was focused to verify the key performance indices: operation water depth, cable burying depth, cable burying speed, and forward speed. The cable maintenance ability was also examined by carrying out the cable cutting test and the cable gripping test. Moreover, applicability of URI-T is also evaluated by two times of cable burying experiments more than 100m distance. As a result, it was verified not only that URI-T satisfies the target performance indicies, but also that URI-T is applicable for the cable burying construction.