Research on the optical sub-system within acoustic-optical composite guiding UUV retracting system
Unmanned underwater vehicle(UUV)enjoys a wide prospect in both military and civilian application.The deployment and retracting technology are essential when affecting the practical application of UUV.At present,there are three main retracting guidance methods:acoustic guidance,optical guidance,and electromagnetic guidance.Each has obvi-ous pros and cons.This paper studies the design process of the optical sub-system in the robotic arm retracting system guided by the acoustic-optical composite method,and a machine vision lens that can be submerged 200 meters.The working dis-tance is in the range of 0.05~10 m and a set of matching used the target were designed.Then the simulation of the system is completed.The system is advanced with the accurate extraction of the target's feature points under the environmental re-quirements.