Perth – April Evening Technical Meeting – Advances in ROV Technologies
09 April, 2025
The Society for Underwater Technology invite you to the April 2025 Evening Technical Meeting:
Theme: Advances in ROV Technologies
Date: Wednesday, 9 April 2025
Time: 5.30 – 8.30pm AWST
Venue: Parmelia Hilton Perth
We’ll have three topics on the evening:
1. Fugro Blue Volta® Lite: Future of Remote and Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
William Wilkinson, Fugro
The Fugro Blue Volta® Lite ROV is designed for seamless integration with Fugro uncrewed surface vessels that provides a range of remote inspection and light intervention tasks for offshore projects.
To enable continuous remote work offshore, the ROV is designed to be semi-autonomous, reliable and highly repairable. It is equipped with modular electronics and hardware designs for quick turnaround repairs, high-performing and reliable thrusters, a robust electric manipulator, and on-board monitoring systems. The ROV comes with on-board processing computers to assist pilots controlling it remotely with high latency. Autopilot features such as dynamic positioning enable the ROV to automatically hold position and heading using an onboard suite of highly accurate sensors. Further developments such as pipeline and visual tracking will further improve the remote operability of the vehicle. The use of advanced camera vision technology enables the capture of high-resolution images to improve the inspection scope of a project, while the development of stereo vision provides accurate measurement of objects and generates 3D mapping of of required areas.
Image provided by FUGRO
2. Freedom to Inspect, Collaborative Robotics on and Under the Water
Tim Stuart, Oceaneering
Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) have revolutionized subsea projects by enabling exploration, inspection, and maintenance of subsea assets. Traditionally, subsea robotic vehicles have been supported using large, crewed vessels; however, new developments are changing this norm with the introduction of remotely piloted and autonomous vehicles that enhance operational efficiencies, reduce overall vessel time on site, and significantly reduce carbon emissions.
Our Springboard presentation will detail the evolution of the collaborative robotics solution delivered by combining the capabilities of ROVs and AUVs, from residency and remote operations to autonomy. We will focus on how this approach drives sustainable, optimized operations that enable users to reduce HSE risk to personnel, improve operational efficiency, reduce the overall carbon footprint of their operations, and improve data delivery to clients.
We will explore field-proven, market-ready ROV and AUV solutions (Freedom AUV, Liberty Resident solution and NextGen ROV’s), included within the remote and resident ecosystem that provide the building blocks required to transform subsea robotics operations globally.
3. Asset Deployed ROVs – Rise of the (Small) Machines
Stuart Barrow, Intervention Engineering
IE has been operating Inspection Class ROVs exclusively since 2006 – during this time we have experienced significant technical and operational change, change that continues to evolve.
This presentation discusses the evolution of IE’s corner of the “small” ROV industry, the key enablers and constraints that have, that do and that will continue to shape that space be they technical, commercial or behavioural.
We will take a particular look at the growing area of Asset Based ROVs and its opportunity to reduce project resources, the risks and the benefits that brings.
Finally we’ll jump into some case studies where we look at instances where that increased capability of Asset Based ROVs has enabled innovative solution delivery.
PROGRAMME & REGISTRATION:
- 5.30 pm – 5.55 pm Registration
- 6.00 pm – 7.30 pm Presentations
- 7.30 pm – 8.30 pm Networking drinks & nibbles
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This ETM is proudly sponsored by:
For event enquiries Contact: SUT (08) 9481 0999 or email [email protected]