Experimental research of a towed underwater vehicle altitude automatic control system
An overview of typical applications of towed underwater vehicles in modern seamanship is given in the paper and the task of improving the quality of automatic control of vehicle altitude is formulated. It is shown that the synthesized highly efficient systems for automatic motion control of towed underwater vehicles require experimental verification. For experimental research of modern management systems of such vehicles, the model of towed underwater vehicle has been created meant to carry out the areal survey of the seabed in the interests of underwater archeology. A program and approach of the marine full-scale testing of the model of the towed underwater vehicle was developed, the main modes of tests and their terms and conditions were described. The composition of marine equipment and the circuit of testing the model of the towed underwater system were considered, the results of the tests were given.