Vision for Subsea Vehicle
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چکیده
Remotely operated vehicles used for inspection and maintenance of subsea installations are guided using visual feedback from several vehicle mounted video cameras. These are augmented by position estimates from a navigation subsystem. A system is described which improves the quality of the video images by real-time video enhancement. The current generation of vehicles are limited in their operation by the umbilical cable connecting them to the surface. Vehicles that can autonomously navigate from the surface to the seabed well-head are being developed. Some of the computer vision techniques used by such systems are discussed.
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