TY - JOUR
T1 - Underwater Caterpillar Profiler
AU - Villa-Medina, Juan Francisco
AU - Gutierrez, Joaquin
AU - Gomez-Munoz, Victor Manuel
AU - Porta-Gandara, Miguel Angel
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - An underwater caterpillar vehicle has been designed and developed to profile along the beach and shoreface. This prototype is employed for zones that are unsuitable to study through bathymetry or manual measurements. The system consists of a metallic structure propelled by two caterpillar tracks. An electronic accelerometer and a GPS receiver measure the profile data. These components provide the seabed slope and the traveled distance along a path. The data are recorded locally and transmitted to a host computer with a radio modem, conforming a wireless duplex link, which is also used for controlling the vehicle and reporting the status. The profiler system has been tested in several zones in the Pacific Coast of the Baja California Peninsula, Mexico and the results were compared with an Electronic Total Station. Based on the obtained results, the underwater caterpillar system evinces to be a reliable profiler option.
AB - An underwater caterpillar vehicle has been designed and developed to profile along the beach and shoreface. This prototype is employed for zones that are unsuitable to study through bathymetry or manual measurements. The system consists of a metallic structure propelled by two caterpillar tracks. An electronic accelerometer and a GPS receiver measure the profile data. These components provide the seabed slope and the traveled distance along a path. The data are recorded locally and transmitted to a host computer with a radio modem, conforming a wireless duplex link, which is also used for controlling the vehicle and reporting the status. The profiler system has been tested in several zones in the Pacific Coast of the Baja California Peninsula, Mexico and the results were compared with an Electronic Total Station. Based on the obtained results, the underwater caterpillar system evinces to be a reliable profiler option.
KW - Beach profile
KW - remotely controlled vehicle
KW - shoreface bathymetry
KW - slope measurement
KW - underwater profiler
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U2 - 10.1109/TIM.2021.3096269
DO - 10.1109/TIM.2021.3096269
M3 - Artículo
AN - SCOPUS:85110825371
SN - 0018-9456
VL - 70
JO - IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement
JF - IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement
M1 - 9481115
ER -