Experimental Results on Visual Inspection of Underwater Structures using Remotely Operated Underwater Vehicle

Abstract

This paper deals with visual inspection of underwater structures using underwater robotic system. Underwater structures should be inspected for safety. For this purpose, a ROV is developed to perform visual inspection of underwater structures. The developed ROV is equipped with visual system, navigation system and thrusters. Using the onboard sensors, high quality images can be transmitted to surface system to test the underwater structures. A basin test was conducted to verify the performance of visual inspection of the ROV.