Distance measurement technology development at remotely teleoperated robotic manipulator system for underwater constructions

To promote underwater construction, the tools such as underwater robotic manipulator system, underwater vehicles and so on are necessary. Furthermore, these system need an accurate 3D position parameters. If no position information for automatic control system that system is difficult to be operated. Hence, it is important to take position information. Although 3D position camera can offer 3D position parameters, it has still some deviation. In addition, the manipulator system need accurate distance information for fast and accurate operation. Hence, an accurate distance measurement system is necessary for a remotely teleoperated robotic manipulator system for underwater constructions. This paper focus on the distance measurement study to offer a accurate target distance information. The information can combine with 3D position camera to obtain more accurate 3D position parameters to offer a useful position information for underwater constructions, with a remotely teleoperated robotic manipulator system. In this paper, three distance measurement system, includes commercial ultrasonic distance measurement system, fabricated ultrasonic system and a laser distance measurement system is study. The commercial distance measurement system have a distance measurement system rang 8~35 cm, plusmn0.1 cm. However, a short distance measurement is difficult to be measured with the measurement system. On the other side, the fabricated measurement system can measure a short distance. Information from 0~5 cm, accuracy plusmn0.3 cm. The fabricated distance measurement system fabricated with PZT thin film. In this study, a horn is added to improve the accuracy of distance measurement. In addition, the laser distance measurement system, measurement system is used to measure the distance information also in this study. The combination of these distance measurement system to form a multiple range distance measurement can offer a long measurement range for accurate distance measurement underwater. A detailed experiment is to be studied in the future. Furthermore, the distance measurement system has been offered a distance measurement in a remotely teleoperated robotic manipulator system for underwater constructions