Alternative AUVs

摘要

Trevor Pugh, UTEC's Global Technical Authority, based in the UK, outlines the benefits of utilising low-logistics autonomous underwater vehicles in pipeline inspection compared with conventional methods. Low-logistics autonomous underwater vehicles (LLAUVs) are AUVs that provide alternatives for pipeline inspection to other AUV, remotely operated vehicle (ROV) or towed sensor methodologies. Since 2011, UTEC, part of the Acteon group, has owned and operated a fleet of seven Gavia LLAUVs manufactured by Teledyne. They have been used for pipeline inspection work scopes in the UK, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Angola, the Gulf of Mexico, the Caspian Sea and off the north coast of Australia.