Rapid and high-resolution motion and tension measurements were made of a caged deepsea ROV (remotely operated vehicle) system. Simultaneous measurements were made of all six components of motion at the cage and ship A-frame and of the tension in the tether at the ship. Data were collected for cage depths of 0 m - 1765 m. The most significant forcing was in the wave-frequency band (0.1 Hz - 0.25 Hz) and accounted for over 90 % of the variance of vertical acceleration. The vertical acceleration of the cage lagged the acceleration of the A-frame by up to 1.9 s and its variance was larger by up to a factor 2.2. For moderate displacements of the A-frame (< = 2 m), the system is only weakly non-linear because the harmonics (3rd and 5th) of the vertical acceleration of the cage account for less than 2 % of the total variance. The system is essentially one-dimensional because only the vertical motion of the cage and the vertical motion of the A-frame were coherent, while horizontal motions of the cage were weak and incoherent with any component of motion of the A-frame. The natural frequency of the system is 0.22 Hz at 1730 m, and it is estimated that it is within the waveband for depths between 1450 m and the full operating depth of 5000 m. Large vertical excursions of the A-frame produce momentary slack in the tether near the cage. Retensioning results in snap loads with vertical accelerations of 0.5 gravity. Large rates of change of tension and vertical acceleration first occur at the cage during its downward motion and propagate to the surface with the characteristic speed (3870 m/s) of tensile waves for the tether. Six echoes are clearly detectable at both ends of the tether, and their pattern is extremely repeatable in different snap loads. Due to misalignment of the tether termination with the centres of mass and buoyancy, the cage pitches by up 14 deg during a snap. The resulting small radius of curvature poses the greatest stress on the tether.


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    Title :

    The motion of a deep-sea remotely operated vehicle system. Part I: Motion observations


    Additional title:

    Die Kinematik eines ferngesteuerten Tiefseefahrzeugs. Teil 1: Bewegungsuntersuchungen


    Contributors:
    Driscoll, F.R. (author) / Lueck, R.G. (author) / Nahon, M. (author)

    Published in:

    Ocean Engineering ; 27 , 1 ; 29-56


    Publication date :

    2000


    Size :

    28 Seiten, 15 Bilder, 6 Tabellen, 18 Quellen




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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