AutoTracker Software for AUV Pipeline Inspections
SeeByte, UK, and Bluefin Robotics, USA, have entered into a collaboration to provide enhanced software solutions for deepwater export pipeline inspections. The collaboration is aimed at equipping Bluefin’s 21-inch AUV platforms with SeeTrack AutoTracker. SeeTrack AutoTracker was developed to enable AUVs to perform export pipeline inspections using on-board payload sensors to detect pipelines and automatically adjust the vehicle’s trajectory to optimally track the pipeline.
The combination of Bluefin’s vehicle stability and navigation capabilities, along with SeeTrack AutoTracker’s ability to accurately guide the AUV at a pre-defined offset from the pipeline, stands to provide an excellent data product for rapid and efficient pipeline inspection. Using SeeByte’s SeeTrack AutoTracker software package on the Bluefin-21 AUV will further expand subsea inspection capabilities and provide valuable information to decision-makers.
