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Supported by the R&D-Project CView Atlas Elektronik together with further partners has recently developed an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) named SeaCat which is able to carry a multitude of payloads for various inspection tasks. A specific pan/tilt-inspection head has been created by the Bremen based institute DFKI Robotics Innovation Center, comprising a multibeam sonar and a camera/laser imaging system. Among possible tasks are inspections of the bottom, walls and underwater structures of harbors and waterways. This configuration marks a starting point for further development leading to a unique underwater inspection system. In the near future this will support closing the safety gap which exists today.
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Kalwa, J. (2012). Underwater Inspection Using the AUV SeaCat. In: Aschenbruck, N., Martini, P., Meier, M., Tölle, J. (eds) Future Security. Future Security 2012. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 318. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33161-9_47
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