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Andy Pack
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January 2021
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Sustainable Cable Ship - Group 1
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Introduction
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Sustainability
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Vessel Study
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Propulsion
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Power Requirements
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Efficiency Investigations
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The use of Ammonia fuel cells for power generation on the vessel provides
the opportunity to eliminate direct
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emissions from the vessel; when produced using renewable energy (
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From these figures, fuel cells could be described as being sensitive to
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This could pose a complication if these cells to be directly coupled to
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The following outlines solutions for this described buffer, rechargeable
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outlines the relevant characteristics for the most common configurations
of rechargeable battery.
As can be seen, Lithium-ion technology leads the other solutions in most
of the categories.
While Nickel-Cadmium has a higher lifespan than Li-ion there are other
factors that led to this being discounted.
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Lithium-ion batteries are a mature domain and one of active research; they
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Innovative Solutions
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Proposed Solution
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For this project, Lithium was proposed as the solution for a vessel energy
storage solution.
As previously mentioned, the domain is an area of fervent research as a
result of it's critical importance to consumer electronics and electric
vehicles.
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There are many standard Lithium-ion standard cell formats from flat pouches
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The 18650 cell is a mature cylindrical cell with good reliability records
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Tesla uses battery packs composed of 18650 cells.
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As with other battery cells, the voltage is a characteristic of the chemistry,
for Lithium this is around 3.6 V.
The key parameters that vary amongst producers are the capacity and charge/disc
harge C-rates.
In order to estimate the cell specification for use in this project, the
existing range of available cells was taken into account.
Typical, mid-range 18650 cells can range between 2500 - 3000 mAh capacity;
the highest energy density can currently extend this to 3500 - 3600 mAh.
As technology improves, it is expected that by the point of construction
this higher range will be more accessible and reliable, as such 3500 mAh
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The amount of required cells for the battery system was calculated using
the expected propulsion power requirements in conjunction with the expected
generation capabilities of the Ammonia fuel cells.
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; to summarise, the amount of required cells was calculated from the required
power draw of the battery and the characteristics of the 18650 Lithium
cell being used.
The result was 193,600 cells.
These cells are arranged into a matrix of parallel and series blocks, all
the series blocks connected in parallel must be of the same length
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The balance of parallel to series blocks not necessarily a critical design
parameter; as the drive motors are AC, transformers can be used to modify
the two parameters.
For high power applications high voltage is typically preferred to high
current.
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Challenges
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Safety Circuitry
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Lifespan
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Financial
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Life-cycle Analysis
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The life-cycle analysis of Lithium-ion batteries is a complicated process
for a couple of reasons.
As repeatedly stated, Li-ion batteries have been critical to the explosion
of mobile consumer electronics; the development of the fabrication process
and the associated environmental effects has changed dramatically.
Additionally, as a global product the values for various greenhouse gas
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cells are made.
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Both the cumulative energy demand (CED) and the GHG emissions are considered.
Cumulative energy demand allows
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There are two main approaches to sustainable end-of-life processing for
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Sustainability
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Although many of the important environmental aspects of sustainability are
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regarding sustainability.
One of the most important aspects is a social one, that of the mining of
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The majority of both minerals are located in two areas of the global south
where resource shortages and unethical mining practices lead to dangerous
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The majority of global Lithium deposits can be found in an area of South
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Over half of the world's Cobalt deposits are found in the Democratic Republic
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Although not widely officially designated as such, there are efforts to
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Mission Ops
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Grapnel-based Operations [AP]
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While the use of robotics has made sub-sea cable repair operations more
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Grapnels are specialised tools attached to lengths of chain which trail
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to the cable.
As the grapnel makes contact it is able to both cut and grip the cable
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Unmanned Underwater Vehicle Operations [AP]
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in order to identify the critical capabilities, requirements and advantages
over traditional grapnel operations.
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The future of the domain is then explored and the challenges in applying
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how these can be overcome in order to meet the determined requirements.
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Prior to this, the domain of UUVs as a whole is described in order to outline
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UUV Classes
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ROVs and AUVs
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UUVs can be divided into two categories based on their control scheme.
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whether it operates independently; as such they have different applications.
ROVs have been the vehicle class of choice where complex intervention and
actuation is required such as offshore oil and gas operations and cable
repair.
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A human operator controls the vehicle from the surface vessel, bi-directional
communication including data, control, video and power are transmitted
through an umbilical cord tether between the two vessels.
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a rapidly developing area of research and development; newer vehicles are
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Box frame UUVs are typically larger with more space for instruments and
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Cable repair operations are currently undertaken, where possible, with human-con
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With visual contact and direct actuation at the seabed, the ROV is used
to identify, cut and grip the cable for retrieval to the surface-vessel.
In doing so the need for repeated motions of the ship across the cable
is removed, saving time and fuel.
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While this finer control is a key benefit for ROV use over grapnels, one
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Relevant specifications and operating capabilities for sub-sea cable repair
ROVs
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lists the specifications for the ROVs currently being used as part of the
ACMA cable repair agreement along with similarly classed vehicles from
other providers.
As can be seen, current ROVs for this domain have a maximum working depth
of about 3 km.
This poses a problem to cable repair operations where, further out to sea,
the sea floor can extend much further, see figure
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bathymetry chart
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.
While ROVs could be capable, in theory, of reaching lower depths it is
important to balance these working capabilities with other considerations
such as price and weight.
In practice, this working depth is a reasonable range to work within, it
could be argued that the most important capability of current ROVs is their
ability to re-bury the cable post-repair.
As described previously, this is in order to protect the cable from human
intervention including fishing and anchor operations.
These incidents are more prevalent in shallower waters within the operating
range of the ROV, therefore it is acceptable to use a grapnel outside of
this operating range where burying the cable is less important.
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Requirements Specification
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Using this information the requirements for a cable repair UUV could be
described as the following,
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The UUV should have actuators in order to both cut and grip cables
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The UUV should be able to operate to at least 2 km of depth
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The UUV should be able to locate the cable without visual information i.e.
electromagnetically
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In shallower water the cable is buried and will not be able to be visually
identified
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The UUV should be able to re-bury the cable in shallower waters
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This should provide more protection to the cable from interference including
fishing operations
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Current AUV Usage
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Autonomous underwater vehicles are well suited to survey and research operations
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; without human intervention they sweep a given area collecting data for
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analysis.
This can include bathymetry
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Measurement of the depth of a body of water
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, surveys and chemical composition investigations such as pH and toxin levels.
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Kongsberg Maritime's HUGIN Superior AUV,
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Advantages
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An advantage of using an autonomous vehicle would be the lack of need for
the surface vessel to maintain position directly above the ROV and fault;
instead the surface vessel would stay within a larger area only to maintain
contact with the UUV.
This could reduce the required power directed to dynamic positioning which
in higher sea states can become a significant draw.
Additionally as the UUV can move independently, the surface vehicle would
not need to directly track the vehicles movement; for example when the
UUV is re-burying the repaired cable in shallower waters.
This would, again, lower the required propulsion power used by the surface
vessel.
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Another advantage could be a reduction in risk during mission operations.
With a traditional tethered ROV, should the umbilical cable be broken the
vehicle would likely lose functionality and require specialist recovery.
This break could occur as a result of a fault in the tether management
system, high storm activity causing too much tension on the system, or
in less likely scenarios, animal intervention.
An autonomous vehicle has no tether to break and a hybrid ROV/AUV could
likely be instructed to take control and return home should the tether
break during missions involving direct human control.
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Domain Challenges
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Navigation
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As mentioned, one of the main advantages of using an autonomous vehicle
for sub-sea cable repairs would be the physical de-coupling of the vehicles,
however this also poses the most significant challenge.
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In typical ROV operations, the operator has knowledge of the location of
the ROV relative to the surface vessel.
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As the surface vessel is GNSS
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Global Navigation Satellite System, the generic term for satellite aided
global navigation of which the American GPS, Russian GLONASS and European
Galileo systems are examples
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-enabled (Likely GPS) it has knowledge of its position in world co-ordinates
and the operator can use this to reduce the ROV's cable search space.
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Decoupling the vehicles introduces complications that are not necessarily
typical to the existing use cases for AUVs.
The frequency of EM waves used by GNSS systems do not penetrate deep through
the water and an AUV must be able to operate without world co-ordinates
provided in this manner.
As such, navigation systems used by AUVs are typically
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systems.
This is a form of navigation that operates relative to a known fixed point
(where a UUV is deployed for example) as opposed to one relative to world
co-ordinates.
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With an accurate system, this will satisfy many surveying and research use
cases where relative location data can be transformed to world-coordinates
after the fact.
This will prove less effective when the vehicle is expected to autonomously
navigate to a specific location (the cable fault).
A dead reckoning system as described above uses relative sensors to measure
it's speed and infer it's current location however these relative sensors
have associated measurement errors which accumulate over time.
This would be more pronounced under the water where sea currents are liable
to accentuate these errors, the efficacy of an AUV's fault location capabilitie
s may be reduced to the point of unacceptability.
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Launch & Recovery
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Proposed Design
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The vehicle will be designed for hybrid ROV/AUV operations.
The vehicle should be able to complete missions independently of the surface
vessel with the ability to operate in a similar fashion to existing ROVs
(human controller, tethered power and data connection).
This will have a number of benefits, primarily that the vehicle should
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be able to benefit from autonomous operation where possible with the ability
for direct human control in missions deemed to complex for autonomous control.
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The existing remit of AUV operations is primarily survey, inspection and
light intervention, it is likely that the autonomous capabilities of this
vehicle would not be capable of conducting all existing cable repair missions
which involve a lot more involved intervention.
It is important that enabling autonomous operations does not ultimately
reduce it's operating capabilities.
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As previously described, box frame UUVs are well suited to sub-sea cable
operations where fine movement control and space for actuators are critical.
As such a box frame of similar specifications to those currently used,
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will be used.
The vehicle will likely be at the larger and heavier end of existing ROVs
as the vehicle must now have the onboard energy capabilities to complete
a mission without a constant power supply from the surface vessel.
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Communication
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As the UUV is now expected to operate independently of the surface vessel,
it should have the ability to bi-directionally wirelessly communicate with
the surface vessel.
Uses for such a communications channel include the UUV reporting it's mission
status and the surface vessel providing high-level instructions such as
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orders.
When operating underwater, acoustic signals are the primary medium for
wireless communication.
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Navigation
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As previously described, the navigation system will primarily be built on
the principle of
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using an inertial navigation system (INS).
An INS uses input from many types of sensor such as accelerometers and
gyroscopes to measure the movement of the vehicle and hence infer it's
location.
None of these could individually provide an accurate determination of location
and as such
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is employed.
Each sensor has an associated measurement uncertainty which compounds over
time, sensor fusion allows all the sensor measurements to be combined in
such a way as to produce a single output measurement with an uncertainty
smaller than any of each sensor individually.
A common method for implementing sensor fusion is using a
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However, despite the use of a Kalman filter allowing more precise approximations
of the vehicles relative location, the lack of external calibrating updates
means that the overall uncertainty will still continually increase over
time.
In land-based robotics this is mitigated through the use of periodic GPS
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measurements which have low, constant uncertainty and help to place an
upper bound on the overall error.
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As previously mentioned, GNSS systems do not work deep underwater and as
such, another method for providing these external updates must be used.
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The following proposes methods for providing global positioning to the UUV
without a traditional GNSS system.
This will be completed in two stages, the first being to provide the UUV
with the ability to measure the location of a fixed point relative to itself.
In parallel, the global co-ordinates of this fixed point will be communicated
to the UUV in order to infer it's own global location.
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Underwater Acoustic Positioning
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Alongside the use of acoustic signals for communications it will also be
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employed for positioning.
One application for this is underwater acoustic positioning which employs
the use of time-of-flight measurements to beacons of a known location to
triangulate an object's location.
There are different configurations for such a system depending on how these
beacons are laid out,
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long-baseline
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(LBL) systems involve beacons located on the sea floor.
Spreading these beacons around the working area of an ROV widens the baseline
of the system and provides higher accuracy when triangulating.
This configuration is best suited to static areas of research such as ship
wrecks where an initial time devoted to deploying and calibrating these
underwater beacons is a reasonable expense to pay for the required high
accuracy.
This is not the case for sub-sea cable repairs where the deployment, calibratio
n and recovery of beacons on the seabed would be prohibitively complex and
add significant time to the duration of a mission.
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Short-baseline
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(SBL) systems involve a number of beacons placed at the furthest corners
of the surface vessel, this has the benefit of requiring little set-up
and pack-down at the cost of reduced accuracy.
Relative to the UUV these beacons are all on a similar bearing when operating
at a distance, as a result changes in the vehicle's location would be reflected
in similar changes to the measurements from all of the beacons.
Previously, with a long-baseline, the beacons are ideally surrounding the
UUV's working area and changes in its location are reflected in different
distance deltas for each beacon allowing tighter triangulation.
Accuracy can be improved by extending the beacons away from the vessel
to extend the baseline as far as possible.
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One method to mitigate the drawbacks of both described methods is by using
GPS Intelligent Buoys (GIBs).
This configuration, also referred to as an
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, allows a much wider baseline than the surface-vessel-mounted beacons by
deploying a group of
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smart buoys
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around the expected working area of the UUV.
The use of buoys as opposed to beacons on the sea-floor significantly decreases
the preparation and clean-up mission phases.75% would likely be an overestimatio
n for an overall average usage, 10 hours would be a minimum range for the
vehicle
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Of these methods it is proposed that the surface vessel be equipped with
a short-baseline beacon array as well as a population of GIBs.
This will allow the choice between higher accuracy or faster mission turnaround
be decided by mission conditions as well as providing redundancy for either
system.
In shallower waters, the accuracy of the onboard SBL may be deemed sufficient
however in deeper water where the UUV is operating far further from the
surface vessel, the compactness of the SBL baseline may require the higher
accuracy of the GIBs
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In practice the two could be used in conjunction for efficiency.
As the UUV is deployed it initially uses the onboard SBL array while the
surface vessel makes a pass around the working area deploying GIBs for
use as the UUV gets deeper
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.
The GIBs would be considered additional accuracy, the SBL would be used
alongside the GIBs and act as an extra node in the array.
Additionally the weather and sea conditions could play a factor in the
decision.
In higher sea states and stormy weather, the deployment and recovery of
GIBs may be deemed too risky and the SBL could be used alone.
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Global Calibration
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The above underwater acoustic positioning system will allow the UUV to keep
track of it's position relative to known points at the surface, however
this alone will not provide the UUV with its global location.
In order for the UUV to calibrate it's local map to global co-ordinates,
the global position of these surface points must be provided.
This will be conducted over the previously described acoustic communication
channel.
As it could be expected that this channel has a low bandwidth, these updates
need not be excessively frequent.
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Acoustic Doppler Current Profiling
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\begin_layout Standard
While accelerometers and gyroscopes would be expected components of any
mobile dead reckoning navigation system, additional sensors well-suited
to sub-sea localisation will allow the vessel's movement to be more precise.
One such sensor is a
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Doppler velocity log
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(DVL) which estimates the vessel's velocity by tracking the seabed.
DVLs apply the broader concept of
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acoustic Doppler current profiling
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which measures the velocity of water by measuring the change in frequency
caused by the Doppler effect.
Combined with depth measurements calculated from the signal's echo time,
this can be used to estimate the vessel's velocity.
DVLs are crucial to a sub-sea INS as, like GPS, their error does not grow
when employed correctly unlike other relative sensors.
As described in section
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, a sensor who's measurement error does not compound and grow but stays
constant is important as it places an upper bound on the overall error
and allows the system to maintain accuracy over time.
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\begin_layout Subsubsection
Control
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Power
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The ability to operate autonomously without an umbilical cord implies that
the UUV must have an onboard power supply.
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\begin_layout Standard
As mentioned, much of the vehicle specification is being inherited from
existing ROV technology and this would include expected operating power.
The expansion of the UUV's capabilities to include autonomous operation
would primarily be completed through software and not significantly alter
the required power.
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300 kW was used as the required max power to calculate the energy storage
capabilities, an operating time of 10 hours was also defined.
An average draw of 50% max power was used to calculate 1.5 MWh of required
storage.
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It is proposed that the UUV battery be removable and that two are available.
This will provide redundancy as well as providing flexibility during missions.
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The previously described 18650 cells (section
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) will be used for the UUV's battery pack, this will allow a single process
for sourcing and end-of-life processing and increase efficiency by utilising
the economy of scale.
As such, the previously mentioned notes on sustainability including processes
for second-use and recycling would apply to the UUVs battery pack.
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As described in the sustainability, operating at scale has allowed the carbon
cost of cells to go down, this is the same thing
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Lithium-polymer batteries have found usage in AUVs as a result of their
lighter weight than Lithium-ion batteries.
While this will increase efficiency, it is proposed that the use of a single
supply chain will improve sustainability, a key parameter for this project.
\end_layout
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The cell voltage (3.6 V) and capacity (3.5 Ah) were multiplied for 12.6 Wh
of power capacity per cell.
This would require 119,048 cells to meet the capacity requirements.
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The battery system constitutes an extra 5,700 kg of extra weight for the
UUV, it is important that the battery be removable for tethered operation
in order to increase efficiency when independent operation is not required.
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\begin_layout Subsubsection
Financials
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\begin_layout Subsubsection
Summary
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Digitalisation
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Before discussing how this project aims to leverage
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it is worth defining the term and the adjacent term
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digitisation
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.
Digitisation describes the transforming of data or a process from an analogue
system to a digital one,
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It is a value-neutral term in of itself and could have positive or negative
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A simple example would be transitioning from working with pen-and-paper
forms to digital documents and PDFs.
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Digitalisation describes the use of digitisation to increase efficiency
and access new value-producing business opportunities,
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To follow the above example, digitalisation could include using groupware
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hard copy revisions of a document between locations.
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As a broad concept, there are many ways that the concept of digitalisation
could be applied to this project, as a whole, though, the initiative could
be described as a
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Many of the features rely on interconnected sites, the internet network
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The surface vessel will be connected to the internet via two gateways.
While berthed, the vessel should be able to connect to the depot via Ethernet
which can be run alongside the shore power line.
For internet connectivity while at sea, the vessel will be equipped with
satellite internet apparatus.
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Network topology across the depot, vessel and cloud environment; main services
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Battery Cell Calculations
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