AVEXIS—Aqua Vehicle Explorer for In-Situ Sensing

Arron Griffiths; Aleksandr Dikarev; Peter Green; Barry Lennox; Xavier Poteau; Simon Watson

doi:10.1109/LRA.2016.2519947

AVEXIS—Aqua Vehicle Explorer for In-Situ Sensing

Arron Griffiths, Aleksandr Dikarev, Peter Green, Barry Lennox, Xavier Poteau, Simon Watson

Sellafield Ltd

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The AVEXIS (aqua vehicle explorer for in-situ sensing) underwater vehicles have been developed to allow characterization and monitoring of hazardous underwater environments with limited access points. A number of forms of the vehicle are being developed to assist in the decommissioning of the Sellafield nuclear facilities in Cumbria, U.K. The vehicles have been designed to be low-cost and have been constructed using novel manufacturing methods, such as 3D printing, which allows them to be built quickly and adds a high level of flexibility to the design. An acoustic communications and positioning system has also been developed which can be integrated into the vehicle or used as a stand-alone system which can be retrofitted onto existing vehicles.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	282
Number of pages	287
Journal	IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
Volume	1
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2016.2519947
Publication status	Published - 20 Jan 2016

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Use of Robots and Autonomous Systems in the UK

Development of ROV system to explore fuel debris in the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant

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The slimline robot who lives in one of the most hazardous environments on the planet

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