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Underwater Robots by C. Vasudevan, K. Ganesan (auth.), Junku Yuh, Tamaki Ura, George A. Bekey (eds.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Underwater Robots about?

All life came from sea but all robots were born on land. The vast majority of both industrial and mobile robots operate on land, since the technology to allow them to operate in and under the ocean has only become available in recent years. A number of complex issues due to the unstructured, hazardous undersea environment, makes it difficult to travel in the ocean while today's technologies allow humans to land on the moon and robots to travel to Mars . . Clearly, the obstacles to allowing robots to operate in a saline, aqueous, and pressurized environment are formidable. Mobile robots operating on land work under nearly constant atmospheric pressure; their legs (or wheels or tracks) can operate on a firm footing; their bearings are not subjected to moisture and corrosion; they can use simple visual sensing and be observed by their creators working in simple environments. In contrast, consider the environment where undersea robots must operate. The pressure they are subjected to can be enormous, thus requiring extremely rugged designs. The deep oceans range between 19,000 to 36,000 ft. At a mere 33-foot depth, the pressure will be twice the normal one atmosphere pressure of 29. 4 p

Who reads Underwater Robots?

Author

C. Vasudevan, K. Ganesan (auth.), Junku Yuh, Tamaki Ura, George A. Bekey (eds.)

Publisher

Springer US

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780792397540

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Science