System for attitude control of underwater vehicle and method for attitude control of underwater vehicle

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PATENT NO 9334031
APP PUB NO 20150090175A1
SERIAL NO

14315993

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A system for attitude control of an underwater vehicle 20 of the present invention includes an underwater vehicle 20 with a thruster 65, an assist device 10 that is coupled to the underwater vehicle 20 with a cable 1 and has cable handling equipment 2 and a thruster 58, a cable attachment-to-attachment distance detection unit 50 that detects distance between a cable attachment of the underwater vehicle 20 and a cable dispenser of the assist device 10, and a control unit 32 that previously stores the relationship between the attachment-to-attachment distance and cable length including a predetermined amount of slack and determines the amount of cable to be wound up or let out based on the cable length associated with the detected attachment-to-attachment distance.

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HITACHI-GE NUCLEAR ENERGY LTD1-1 SAIWAI-CHO 3-CHOME HITACHI-SHI IBARAKI 317-0073

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Hirano, Katsuhiko Hitachi, JP 16 175
Kobayashi, Ryosuke Tokyo, JP 90 339
Kono, Naoyuki Tokyo, JP 29 323
Mori, Hayato Tokyo, JP 22 56
Okada, Satoshi Tokyo, JP 287 3722
Takatori, Yosuke Hitachi, JP 6 34
Tooma, Masahiro Tokyo, JP 7 120

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