Extended Operational and Trade Vocabulary
ROVs, AUVs, USVs and Marine Robotics glossary (page 2)
The marine-robotics vocabulary: launch-and-recovery systems (A-frame LARS), the AUV platforms and their survey and mine-countermeasures variants (ECA A18, A27), synthetic aperture sonar, and the ROV, USV, and autonomy terms. Grounds each term in the robotic platform or the subsea operation it belongs to.
288 defined terms.
Showing 38 on this page (page 2 of 2).
S
- Sub-Bottom Profiler
- Acoustic survey instrument used in cable and pipeline route surveys to image sediment layers.
- Sub-C Imaging Rayfin
- Subsea camera product family from Sub-C Imaging used on ROVs and seabed landers.
- Subsea7 Centurion
- See Centurion.
- Synthetic aperture sonar
- Sonar technique that coherently combines successive pings from a moving platform to form very high resolution along track images.
T
- Teledyne Benthos
- Teledyne Marine business covering acoustic modems, releases and autonomous platforms.
- Teledyne Gavia
- See Gavia.
- Teledyne Marine
- Teledyne Technologies business segment spanning RDI, Reson, Benthos, Webb Research, Gavia, BlueView, SeaBotix and other subsea brands.
- Teledyne Reson
- Teledyne Marine business segment covering the SeaBat multibeam echo sounder family.
- Teledyne SeaBotix
- Teledyne Marine inspection-class ROV brand covering the LBV and vLBV vehicle families.
- Teledyne Webb Research
- Teledyne Marine business that produces Slocum gliders and APEX profiling floats.
- Tether
- Cable that connects a tethered ROV to its surface or cage power and telemetry source, typically combining copper conductors and optical fibers.
- Tether Management System
- Subsea garage between the ROV and the LARS that pays out and recovers the lightweight working tether.
- Tiger
- See Saab Seaeye Tiger.
- Titan 4
- See Schilling Titan 4.
- TMS
- See Tether Management System.
- Torque tool
- API 17D class subsea hydraulic tool deployed by an ROV manipulator to operate subsea valve stems and overrides.
- Triton 200
- Triton Submarines or historically Perry Slingsby work-class ROV depending on context; the Forum portfolio includes the Triton XLS work-class line.
- Triton XLR
- Forum Energy Technologies Triton resident work-class ROV.
- Triton XLS-225
- Forum Energy Technologies Triton work-class ROV in the 225 horsepower class.
U
- UHD
- Schilling Robotics Ultra Heavy Duty work-class ROV with 220 horsepower hydraulic capacity.
- Umbilical
- Composite hose/cable bundle (electric, hydraulic, chemical, fiber).
- USBL
- Ultra-short baseline acoustic positioning that uses a single transducer head with multiple elements to derive bearing and range to a transponder.
- USV
- Unmanned surface vessel, a self-propelled surface platform operated remotely or autonomously without crew on board.
V
- VideoRay
- US manufacturer of compact tethered observation-class ROVs widely used in defense, infrastructure and search and rescue.
- VideoRay Defender
- See Defender.
- VideoRay Mission Specialist Defender
- Modular member of the VideoRay Mission Specialist family in the Defender configuration.
- VideoRay Pro 4
- Earlier generation VideoRay Pro family observation-class ROV.
- VideoRay Pro 5
- See Pro 5.
W
- Wave Glider SV2
- See Liquid Robotics Wave Glider SV2.
- Wave Glider SV3
- See Liquid Robotics Wave Glider SV3.
- Western Space and Marine
- US manufacturer of subsea hydraulic manipulators historically supplied to deep submergence vehicles.
- Work-class ROV
- Class III hydraulically powered tethered vehicle typically in the 150 to 250 horsepower range used for offshore intervention.
X
- XLR-C
- See Forum XLR-C.
- XLS-225
- See Triton XLS-225.
- XLX Evo
- See Forum XLX-Evo.
- XLX-C
- See Forum XLX-C.