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Chris, I was thinking you could make the inertial reference unit into a two-way control mechanism. The scanner uses the IRU to report it's position, and the current side-scan data. The surface operator receives the data and is presented with a 3D picture of the cave. The operator then guides the ROV to the next location. The only down-side that I can see is the ability to receive the 3D data in sufficient real-time. However, the ROV need not move that fast, since no decompression penalty needs to be considered, and once a 3D map has been obtained at the surface, and waypoints established, no data is required to be received in order to send a ROV to a previously mapped point. JT (daydreaming) -- John Taylor, Marketing and Trading Systems, IT Development Credit Suisse Financial Products (Hong Kong) Ltd, 13F, Tower 3, Exchange Square, Central, Hong Kong Office: +852 2101 6927, Fax: +852 2101 7698, Mobile: +852 9031 6395, email: john.taylor@cs*.co*.uk* [private e-mail: live4diving@ho*.co*] > -----Original Message----- > From: Christopher D Lathan [SMTP:clathan@wi*.fi*.ed*] > Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 1998 12:17 PM > To: Taylor, John > Cc: 'techdiver@aquanaut.com' > Subject: ROV > > The tether would be massive causing an entangling hazard. > > An AUV would have to be very complex to do it. > > Chris Lathan > clathan@fi*.ed* -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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