Taut wire positioning system
Challenge: Provide a RTK quality underwater positioning system in shallow offshore waters.
What we did
- 5 CM positioning with taut wire principle
Using our own MGB-Tech machine guidance components we built a system that provides 5 CM positioning with the taut wire principle.
- Usage of inclination sensors
For the inclination measurement we used three of our high accurate SAE1 gravitational inclination sensors.
- Use of tension winch
We used a constant tension winch to straighten the draw wire. By accurately measuring the angles of the draw wire and the pitch roll of the frame combined with a cable length measurement gave us all the information needed to calculate the position.
- Interface between wire and quadrature encoder
The draw wire length was interfaced with our ENC1 quadrature encoder.
What we delivered
- Mechanical design
- measurement principle
- Calibration process
- Calculation software to transparently interface with existing systems
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