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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2010
Julio Guerrero, Cambridge, MA (US);
Franz Hover, Somerville, MA (US);
Charles Ambler, Miami, FL (US);
Brooks Reed, Cambridge, MA (US);
Robert Hummel, Cambridge, MA (US);
Julio Guerrero, Cambridge, MA (US);
Franz Hover, Somerville, MA (US);
Charles Ambler, Miami, FL (US);
Brooks Reed, Cambridge, MA (US);
Robert Hummel, Cambridge, MA (US);
Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
A subsea vertical glider robot which supports deployment in subsea oilfield activities is disclosed. This vertical glider robot can also be used in oceanographic research exploration. One application of this vertical glider robot is the autonomous delivery of equipment and sensor systems to a precise predetermined location on the sea floor. The vertical glider robot is deployed from a surface ship or any other suitable sea surface platform and allowed to free fall to the bottom of the ocean. The traversal through the body of water is performed primarily by converting initial potential energy of the apparatus into kinetic energy, it does not use propellers. The traversing of the seafloor is controlled with a steering module that refines orientation while processing information about the vertical glider robot's current position and the target where it has to land.