Update on Ifremer technological developments and operational feedbacks with underwater systems
This paper reports on the status of Ifremer Underwater systems. It will focus on recent innovations, improvements and operational references of the remotely operated vehicle “Victor 6000”, of the autonomous underwater vehicles “AsterX” and “IdefX”, of the new “Sysif” seismic tool and some hints about RanD in the domain of Advanced Intervention AUVs.
Victor 6000: New High Resolution Tools for Deep Sea Research. «Module de Mesures en Route»
This paper describes the new survey module (called "Module de Mesures en Route"), of the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Victor 6000 and presents the first results obtained during two scientific cruises held during the summer of 2006 (Viking and Momareto).
First Steps in Ifremer's Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Program- A 3000m Depth Operational Survey AUV for Environmental Monitoring
This paper presents the new Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Program launched by the French Institute for the Sustainable Exploitation of the Sea (Ifremer), for new programs related to environmental survey and monitoring. For several years Ifremer has been involved in technological development of intervention AUVs in collaboration with industrial partners. Historically, Ifremer was also a pioneer of underwater vehicles with the deep sea AUV, Epaulard in the 80’s (Michel et al. 84). The first step in the new Coastal AUV program is the development of a 3000m depth survey AUV, described in this paper and built by International Submarine Engineering, in partnership with French partners such as Cybernetix.