A Smart Remotely Operated Vehicle, ROV Latis designed
as a prototype test bed for operation such as the challenging role of ocean
engineering support in wave and tidal energy development is presented in this
paper. With state of the art navigation sensors/instruments the vehicle can
achieve precision navigation and positioning sub sea and this capability has
been utilised within automatic control functionality and autopilot control
systems developed and trialed on ROV Latis and not available in commercial
ocean ROV technology. This paper describes the vehicle's many novel design
features: sensor and control systems, autopilot systems, station keeping, fully
automatic way point navigation, rapid auto tuning when ROV configuration or
payload is changed, fully automatic fault tolerant thruster control with
redundancy. The paper also introduces the transparent ocean immersive augmented
reality pilot control environment