{"id":900,"date":"2018-06-20T16:05:18","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T20:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/osl\/?page_id=900"},"modified":"2018-06-21T15:19:01","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T19:19:01","slug":"remus-tiv","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/osl\/vehicles\/remus-tiv\/","title":{"rendered":"REMUS TIV"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>REMUS Tunnel Inspection Vehicle<\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/osl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2018\/06\/media2-2002-212-NY-Remus-Mclean-Tank-4762-1024x667.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"667\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>The Water That Got Away<\/h3>\n<p>The WHOI Tunnel Inspection Vehicle (TIV) was built in 2004 to inspect a 45 mile section of the Delaware Aqueduct and to, ultimately, find its leaks.\u00a0 This was the first time that the tunnel was inspected while in use.<\/p>\n<h3>Challenges<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Acoustic Tracking of AUV in tunnel :\u00a0 What are the acoustic properties of a deep, drilled-in-rock, concrete-lined aqueduct?<\/li>\n<li>Optical Imaging:\u00a0 What is the best camera and light configuration for imaging the walls of the tunnel?<\/li>\n<li>Vehicle Navigation:\u00a0 How do we insure that the AUV will fly in the center of the tunnel and not bounce off the walls?<\/li>\n<li>Launch and Recovery of AUV:\u00a0 How do we launch the AUV through small openings in 1000&#8242; deep vertical shafts at both launch sites?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Imaging<\/h3>\n<p>TIV contained 5 high resolution digital cameras and four strobe lights for illumination.\u00a0 Approximately 186,000 digital still images were taken, each containing telemetry information to indicate the exact position of the image to facilitate finding the location of any leaks.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/osl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2018\/06\/media-2003-011-2003_011_006_58312_99329-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" \/> Senior engineer Tom Austin of the Oceanographic Systems Laboratory (OSL) steadies a custom-built REMUS autonomous underwater vehicle as it is raised off its storage platform. In 2003, the specially designed Tunnel Inspection Vehicle was deployed in a New York City aqueduct to help assess the structural integrity of the massive water-delivery system. The OSL team has been asked to make another survey for the city in 2008. (Photo by Douglas Weisman for Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)<\/p>\n<h3>Multimedia<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whoi.edu\/page.do?pid=38145&amp;cid=120494&amp;tid=7842\">Tunnel inspection simulation video<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>REMUS Tunnel Inspection Vehicle The Water That Got Away The WHOI Tunnel Inspection Vehicle (TIV) was built in 2004 to inspect a 45 mile section of the Delaware Aqueduct and to, ultimately, find its leaks.\u00a0 This was the first time that the tunnel was inspected while in use. Challenges Acoustic Tracking of AUV in tunnel&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":21,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/osl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/900"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/osl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/osl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/osl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/osl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/osl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":970,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/osl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/900\/revisions\/970"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/osl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/osl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}