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Localization for underwater robot using camera and light source

Localization for underwater robot using camera and light source / Ng Ping Jian
Dewasa ini, lautan adalah salah satu sumber utama makanan, minyak dan gas. Terdapat banyak lagi sumber yang belum diterokai di bawah lautan tetapi ia bukanlah tugas yang mudah kerana manusia tidak boleh bernafas di dalam air. Oleh itu, lebih baik membiarkan robot melakukan tugasnya. Hal ini adalah disebabkan meraka mampu bertahan dalam air tanpa bekalan oksigen dan menahan sejumlah besar tekanan air sebelum disfungsi. Robot yang berfungsi bawah air digelar sebagai autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV). Walaupun AUV tidak memerlukan oksigen dan boleh menahan tekanan hebat yang tidak boleh dilakukan oleh manusia, mereka mempunyai kelemahan juga. Salah satu kelemahan AUV ialah mereka tidak mengerti arah dan lokasi sendiri. Kita boleh menggunakan Global Positioning System (GPS) untuk robot di atas permukaan tanah menentukan lokasinya tetapi GPS tidak berfungsi di dalam air. AUV menggunakan sensor seperti sonar dan radar untuk lokalisasi di dalam air tetapi modul tersebut sangat mahal. Penggantian yang murah dan mudah ialah menggunakan kamera dan penanda terapung. Kamera yang menghadap ke permukaan air boleh mengambil imej penanda terapung, di mana kedudukan penanda telah dikenalpasti. Kemudian, imej itu boleh diproseskan dan lokasi AUV boleh dikenal pasti melalui teknik yang dikenali sebagai trilaterasi. Trilaterasi adalah teknik yang digunakan untuk menentukan koordinat titik yang tidak diketahui, diberi 3 jarak dari 3 koordinat titik yang berbeza dengan koordinat yang diketahui. Hasilnya menunjukkan teknik itu berjaya. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ As of today, ocean is one of the major sources of food, oil and gas. There are so many wonders yet to be discovered under the ocean and it was no easy task as human cannot breathe underwater. Thus, it is better to let robots to do the job. Since they can survive without oxygen and can withstand a great amount of pressure before disfunction. The term we come with robot under water is autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV). However, while AUV does not require oxygen and can withstand great pressure which human cannot, they lack the ability and advantages as well. For example, AUV lacks the precision control as well as sense of direction. A robot does not know where it should go unless you tell it to. We can use Global Positioning System (GPS) to locate a robot on land so that it has “sense of direction”, but GPS does not work well underwater. Advance AUV employs features such as sonar and radar for underwater localization. However, those modules are very expensive. A replacement of sonar and radar would be using camera and floating markers. Camera facing the surface of the water can take image of floating markers, where the position of the markers is already identified. Then, the image can be sent to microprocessor to process the image and position of the AUV can be pinpoint its own location, given the known location of floating markers, through a technique called trilateration. Trilateration is a technique used to determine the coordinate of an unknown point, given 3 distances from 3 points with known coordinate. The result shown the technique was successful.
Contributor(s):
Ng Ping Jian - Author
Primary Item Type:
Final Year Project
Identifiers:
Accession Number : 875007667
Language:
English
Subject Keywords:
ocean; sources; oil
First presented to the public:
6/1/2018
Original Publication Date:
8/7/2018
Previously Published By:
Universiti Sains Malaysia
Place Of Publication:
School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Citation:
Extents:
Number of Pages - 93
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Date Deposited
2018-08-09 09:50:18.739
Date Last Updated
2019-01-07 11:24:32.9118
Submitter:
Mohd Jasnizam Mohd Salleh

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