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Advances in Reconfigurable Vectorial Thrusters for Adaptive Underwater Robots

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Manoeuvrability is one of the essential keys in the development of improved autonomous underwater vehicles for challenging missions. In the last years, more researches were dedicated to the development of new hulls shapes and thrusters to assure more manoeuvrability. The present review explores various enabling technologies used to implement the vectorial thrusters (VT), based on water-jet or propellers. The proposals are analysed in terms of added degrees of freedom, mechanisms, number of necessary actuators, water-tightness, electromagnetomechanical complexity, feasibility, etc. The usage of magnetic coupling thrusters (conventional or reconfigurable) is analysed in details since they can assure the development of competitive full waterproof reconfigurable thrusters, which is a frictionless, flexible, safe, and low-maintenance solution. The current limitations (as for instance the use of non conductive hull) are discussed and ideas are proposed for the improvement of this new generation of underwater thrusters, as extending the magnetic coupling usage to obtain a fully contactless vector thrust transmission.
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hal-03188760 , version 1 (02-04-2021)

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Henrique Fagundes Gasparoto, Olivier Chocron, Mohamed Benbouzid, Pablo Siqueira Meirelles. Advances in Reconfigurable Vectorial Thrusters for Adaptive Underwater Robots. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2021, 9 (2), pp.170. ⟨10.3390/jmse9020170⟩. ⟨hal-03188760⟩
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