Development of marker detection method for estimating angle and distance of underwater remotely operated vehicle to buoyant boat

(1) * Muhammad Qomaruz Zaman Mail (Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember, Indonesia)
(2) Ronny Mardiyanto Mail (Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember, Indonesia)
*corresponding author

Abstract


The paper proposes a Marker Detection Method for Estimating the Angle and Distance of Underwater Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) to Buoyant Boat. To keep the ROV aligned with the boat, a marker and visual recognition system are designed. The marker is placed facing down under the boat and a method is developed to recognize the angle and distance of the marker from a facing up camera on the ROV. By considering space, payload, heat dissipation, and buoyancy in a micro class ROV, there are limited options for computing power that can be utilized. This challenge demands a lightweight visual recognition technique for small computers. The proposed method consists of two steps. The marker designing step explains how the marker is constructed of simple components. The marker recognizing step is based on image processing that uses threshold and blob filtering. They are blob size and blob circularity filters which are used to eliminate unwanted information. The real-time orientation and distance estimation by using one camera are the superiority of this method. The proposed method has been tested by using an 11x11 cm2 marker size. The detection rate of the marker is 90% and can be detected up to 120 cm from the camera. The marker can be tilted up to 50° and still has an 80% detection rate. The method can estimate marker rotation angle accurately with a 1.75° average error. The method can estimate the distance between the marker and camera with a -0.62 cm average error. The blob filter is also proven to be superior to a regular dilating and eroding method.

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ROV; Distance estimatiom; Angle estimation; Underwater marker detection; Marker shape filter

   

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[3] N. Miskovic, E. Nad, N. Stilinovic, and Z. Vukic, “Guidance and control of an overactuated autonomous surface platform for diver tracking,” in 21st Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, Platanias, Chania - Crete, Greece, Jun. 2013, pp. 1280–1285. doi: 10.1109/MED.2013.6608884.

[4] J. H. Tarnecki and W. F. Patterson, “A mini ROV-based method for recovering marine instruments at depth,” PLOS ONE, vol. 15, no. 7, p. e0235321, Jul. 2020, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0235321.

[5] M.-M. Naddaf-Sh, H. Myler, and H. Zargarzadeh, “Design and Implementation of an Assistive Real-Time Red Lionfish Detection System for AUV/ROVs,” Complexity, vol. 2018, pp. 1–10, Nov. 2018, doi: 10.1155/2018/5298294.

[6] Đ. Nađ, F. Mandić, and N. Mišković, “Using Autonomous Underwater Vehicles for Diver Tracking and Navigation Aiding,” J. Mar. Sci. Eng., vol. 8, no. 6, p. 413, Jun. 2020, doi: 10.3390/jmse8060413.

[7] R. J. Smolowitz, S. H. Patel, H. L. Haas, and S. A. Miller, “Using a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) to observe loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) behavior on foraging grounds off the mid-Atlantic United States,” J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol., vol. 471, pp. 84–91, Oct. 2015, doi: 10.1016/j.jembe.2015.05.016.

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[9] N. Sakagami, F. Takemura, R. Ono, C. Katagiri, Y. Nakanishi, and Y. Yamamoto, “Observation support system of an ROV for underwater archaeology,” in 2015 International Conference on Intelligent Informatics and Biomedical Sciences (ICIIBMS), Okinawa, Japan, Nov. 2015, pp. 192–196. doi: 10.1109/ICIIBMS.2015.7439498.

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[19] Jin-YeongPark, Bong-huanJun, Pan-mook Lee, and Junho Oh, “Experiments on vision guided docking of an autonomous underwater vehicle using one camera,” Ocean Eng., vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 48–61, Jan. 2009, doi: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2008.10.001.

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[24] G.-J. Hou, X. Luan, D.-L. Song, and X.-Y. Ma, “Underwater Man-Made Object Recognition on the Basis of Color and Shape Features,” J. Coast. Res., vol. 321, pp. 1135–1141, Sep. 2016, doi: 10.2112/JCOASTRES-D-14-00249.1.

[25] Z. Chen, Z. Zhang, F. Dai, Y. Bu, and H. Wang, “Monocular Vision-Based Underwater Object Detection,” Sensors, vol. 17, no. 8, p. 1784, Aug. 2017, doi: 10.3390/s17081784.

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[30] S. Hong, D. Chung, J. Kim, Y. Kim, A. Kim, and H. K. Yoon, “In‐water visual ship hull inspection using a hover‐capable underwater vehicle with stereo vision,” J. Field Robot., vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 531–546, May 2019, doi: 10.1002/rob.21841.

[31] R. Mardiyanto, B. Tamam, and H. Suryoatmojo, “Development of Navigation Method of Buoyant Boat for Maintaining Position of The Boat and Underwater Remotely Operated Vehicle,” in 2018 5th International Conference on Information Technology, Computer, and Electrical Engineering (ICITACEE), Semarang, Sep. 2018, pp. 219–224. doi: 10.1109/ICITACEE.2018.8576938.

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