ROV LATIS is a next generation smart ROV with multiple
modes of operation: Surface-Tow Mode, Surface-Thrusted Mode, ROV Operation Mode
& ROV Submerged Tow in Strong Currents Mode. It is designed as a prototype
platform to demonstrate system validity & operability and to prove new
technologies developed in the Mobile and Marine Robotics Research Centre.
Research outcomes are applicable to the growing international off-shore oil and
gas sector, and also for future deployment, monitoring, and maintenance of
ocean energy devices (in particular - wave energy converters and tidal
turbines). System validation and technology demonstration was performed through
a series of test trials with different support vessels off the west coast of Ireland.
Selected results of the most recent field trials are presented in this paper