AUTOMATED INTERVENTION BY UNDERWATER ROBOTICS WITH AID OF OFF-LINE PROGRAMMING

Abstract

Industrial robots typically replace workers performing well structured, repetitive, and often tedious manual work. Teleoperators, on the other hand, augment the human manual, sensing, and perceptive capabilities and extend them to remote, hostile, and dangerous places undesirable or inaccessible by humans. The adaptation of robots for subsea work has now made it possible to envisage inspection, repair and maintenance (IRM) in the past considered to be impossible, thereby opening new market opportunities and new fields for the adaptation of programmable robots. This paper describes an adaptation proposed for advanced robots in hostile and difficult environments, such as in some deep- sea operations for the offshore oil production.