General description
The program generates the visual representation of the operating parameters of an underwater robotic complex displaying the real-time orientation
and navigation situation in the form of text and primitive graphic elements. ROV HUD Borey is a multifunctional indicator/display with the
data sourced from the on-board systems, ROV sensors and navigation/survey departments that provide offshore operation navigation support.
The information display methods (modes) are to select by the pilot (operator, usually co-pilot). In some cases, the parameter displaying method
may have more than one visual representation. Each instrument is adapted to ensure quick reading of the displayed parameter.
What are rov hud borey used for?
(Wing, Oil and Gas,
Hydroelectric)
Close Visual Inspections;
NDT Inspections;
Infrastructure Deployment and Recovery;
Control Manifold Interventions
Search and
Rescue
Waterborne Improvised Explosive Device;
Special Recovery Operations;
Hydrography;
Drowned Victim Recovery Forensic Assessment Equipment Recovery
and Marine Science,
Underwater Exploration
Sample and Sediment Collection;
Academic Research Applications;
General Visual Observation;
Retrieval of Objects
Decommissioning
Debris Collection and Removal;
General Visual Inspection;
Cutting and Recovery;
NDT Inspections;
Instrumental representation of parameters in the form of graphical primitives and text allows to significantly reduce the possibility of the “informational overload” for the ROV pilot who is to simultaneously monitor a wide scope of parameters, readings of meters and instruments, as well as videos from the vehicle cameras displayed on numerous monitors.
This visualization method represents the overlay that generates textual and graphic information on a video captured by one of the vehicle’s cameras (usually it is the central, forward-looking camera) or on a black background, when the program cannot be provided with a video signal.
This Augmented Reality operates to introduce real-time orientation and target designation data to the visual field of an ROV pilot.
System architecture and functional
The application modules are built based on the client-server technology. The server component acts as a collector of data and data share point. This data is to be received by client modules that visualizes the data. The visualized data may be overlayed over the video signal of any ROV camera or over a black background if the application cannot be provided with a video signal.
Numerous client modules may be launched on different computers within a local network.
Overlay (client) module functionality
- Overlay displaying onto video captured by a video capture card
or on black background - Video recording in WMV format with the ability to limit clips
by time duration or video file volume - Video frame capture (screenshot) in BMP or JPG format during
videorecording or displaying - Second monitor feature. Overlayed video output on the
second monitor in full screen mode - Font fine tune for text and graphic overlay components:
font, size, style, color
Text overlay
- Date, Time, Project name, Vessel heading, Seabed depth
- ROV: Coordinates, Roll, Pitch, Depth, Altitude, SOG
(ROV Speed Over Ground), Turn counter - TMS: Coordinates, Depth, Turn counter
- Targets: Target name, Distance to target, Heading to target,
Relative heading to target - Waypoints (WPT)
- Text (text data received from BoreyDC module)
- Static text (text data manually entered in BoreyOlay module)
Graphical overlay
- Heading, Depth, Altitude, Artificial horizon, Safe heading/sector,
Combined ROV-TMS turn counter, Track, Targets, Waypoints,
Runline/profile
Some graphical overlay instruments have several variants of visual representation.
Advantages of rov hud borey
representation of parameters allows to
significantly reduce the possibility of the
“informational overload” for the ROV pilot
who is to simultaneously monitor a wide scope
of parameters, readings of instruments
graphic information on a video captured
by one of the vehicle’s cameras.
This «Augmented Reality» operates to
introduce real-time orientation and target
designation data to the visual field of pilot.
functionality. Overlay displaying onto video.
Video recording. Video frame capture.
Second monitor feature.
Font fine tune for text and graphic overlay
components.
Developer ROV HUD BOREY
Developer ROV HUD Borey – Zharkov Lab software development team, the head and founder of which is an active ROV pilot/technician with more than 20 years of experience in the offshore industry.
The project originated back in 2008 in the form of experiments on ways to present current parametric information in the form necessary for quick, natural perception by operational personnel, in order to carry out with the use of underwater robotic complexes – ROV. These experiments turned into a small project, the development of which continued together with the search for the optimal internal architecture of the software package to give an effective way to work with the final implementation in the form of a complete computer program. At the same time, ways of presenting information, parameters, and their different visual representations were being developed. The whole project developed in hobby mode until the developer’s colleagues began to pay attention to it and evaluate it.
The current implementation is designed to provide the ROV pilot with the tools necessary to form a greater situational working/operational awareness. This point is especially relevant in cases where the working conditions are complicated by various factors, such as weather conditions, characteristics of the marine and biological environment, the joint work of several ROVs, work with divers, and other factors.
At the same time, the program implements additional features that are in demand in daily work with ROV.
At the design and initial development stage, the project was named ROV HUD Captain Nemo. Under this name, there is still a certain amount of media material on the Internet. Later, the name of the project was changed and it is now called ROV HUD Borey.
General situational awareness is one of the keys to the efficiency and safety of work.
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