AUTOTRACKER: Autonomous inspection — capabilities and lessons learned in offshore operations

Abstract

This paper presents AUTOTRACKER, an autonomous pipeline inspection system that operates as a dynamic mission payload for an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV). The paper describes the mode of operation, together with the validation & trial operations AUTOTRACKER has undertaken over the years, and how this valuable experience has been fed back into the future development of the system.

Original document

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• http://osl.eps.hw.ac.uk/files/uploads/publications/PID994979.pdf

• http://osl.eps.hw.ac.uk/files/uploads/publications/PID994979.pdf,

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http://yadda.icm.edu.pl/yadda/element/bwmeta1.element.ieee-000005422339,

https://researchportal.hw.ac.uk/en/publications/autotracker-autonomous-inspection-capabilities-and-lessons-learne,

https://academic.microsoft.com/#/detail/2140375883

• http://xplorestaging.ieee.org/ielx5/5412664/5422059/05422339.pdf?arnumber=5422339,

http://dx.doi.org/10.23919/oceans.2009.5422339