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Numerical Investigation into Hydrodynamic Interactions Between an Open-Frame Underwater Cleaning Robot and a Full-Scale Floating Production Storage and Offloading
Most of the published work related to the influence of ship hulls on hydrodynamic characteristics of underwater robots takes ship hulls as nearly...
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Review of Underwater Ship Hull Cleaning Technologies
This paper presents a comprehensive review and analysis of ship hull cleaning technologies. Various cleaning methods and devices applied to dry-dock...
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Cleaning Automation
The field of cleaning automation has grown in the last years, for floor cleaning and other areas, in the home and beyond. Buoyed by recent...
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Application of Ultrasonic Cavitation in Ship and Marine Engineering
Biofouling on ships and offshore structures has always been a difficult problem to solve, which not only jeopardizes the structural strength but also...
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Modelling Analysis of Spherical Underwater Robot for Aquaculture Biofouling Cleaning
Underwater robotics research is gaining more considerable worldwide attention. Various types of underwater robots have been built using a variety of...
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Communication for Underwater Robots: Recent Trends
Purpose of ReviewUnderwater robot communication – both between underwater robots and between other nodes and stations out of the water – is essential...
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Modelling Analysis of a Bio-inspired Triangular Underwater Robot for Aquaculture Biofouling Cleaning
Underwater robotics research is gaining more considerable worldwide attention. Various types of underwater robots have been built in a variety of...
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Numerical investigation of the dynamic response of a simplified floating structure subjected to two underwater explosion bubbles
The interaction of the two coupling bubble with a floating structure is modelled to investigate the dynamic behavior of the warship under an...
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Multi-objective Route Planning for Underwater Cleaning Robot in Water Reservoir Tank
Underwater tank cleaning using robotic method is very crucial due to the concern on the diver’s safety in undisrupted water supply operation. A...
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Development of a Biomimetic Underwater Robot for Bottom Inspection of Marine Structures
Underwater inspection of marine structures is important to ensure the safety and integrity of infrastructure; however, stable exploration using...
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What is a Cruise Ship?
This chapter sets out an example 100,000 gross ton cruise ship and its main dimensions such as length, beam, draft, speed, and space ratio, and...
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Structure Design of a Cleaning Robot for Underwater Hull Surface
A cleaning robot for underwater hull surface is designed, which mainly includes adsorption mode, track driving mode, driving mechanism and cleaning...
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Fully Automatic Visual Servoing Control for Underwater Vehicle Manipulator Systems Based on a Heuristic Inverse Kinematics
The use of underwater vehicle manipulator systems (UVMS) equipped with cameras has gained significant attention due to their capacity to perform...
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Complete area-coverage path planner for surface cleaning in hospital settings using mobile dual-arm robot and GBNN with heuristics
Complete area-coverage path planners are essential for robots performing tasks like cleaning, inspection, and surveying. However, they often involve...
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Experimental study and prediction model of the cleaning effect induced by self-resonating cavitating waterjet
Self-resonating cavitation waterjet (SRCW) has rapidly developed and been widely used in cleaning fields due to its non-thermal and environmentally...
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Influence of propeller fouling on propulsion performance of an actual ship: a long-term analysis focusing on the power for kee** propeller’s rotation of a controllable pitch propeller
This study focuses on the shaft power at the neutral angle of a controllable pitch propeller to analyze the change in the required power due to...
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Review of the IMO Initiatives for Ship Energy Efficiency and Their Implications
This paper presents a review of the different International Maritime Organization (IMO) initiatives to improve the ship energy efficiency of new and...
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Anticipation methods for management of ship oil spills on the sea
Despite various kinds of binding regulations, marine pollution is still being found. To ensure that all such regulations have been complied with, it...
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Dynamics of Underwater Explosion Bubble Pairs Oscillating Near a Floating Structure
Interactions between multiple bubbles near a structure are applicable in several fields such as military or industrial engineering. In this paper,...