Recent research activities of underwater vehicles in Korea

Abstract

Underwater vehicles become dominant and precious tools for the exploration and exploitation of ocean. Korean government has supported the development of several types of underwater vehicles during last decade. Underwater technologies followed by such development enables more ambitious plans to build a large-scale system, and to develop basic equipment such as navigation sensor system and manipulator system. In this paper, we are going to introduce recent research activities on the underwater robotic vehicles including a 6,000m class deep-sea unmanned underwater vehicle, which is supported by the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Affairs of Korea.