Design of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle ISIMI and Experiment on Underwater Docking

Abstract

Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) are unmanned vessels to investigate sea environ-ments, oceanography and deep-sea resources, etc. Docking systems are required to increase the capability of the AUVs to recharge their batteries and to transmit data in underwater. The AUVs being able to dock to an underwater station can give us long-time and repetitive investigation without surfacing. This paper introduces a small testbed AUV named ISIMI, acronym of Integrated Submergible for Intelligent Mission Implementation. Also, underwater docking experiments and results are introduced