抄録
There are many natural resources such as natural gas, methane hydrate and so on in the sea near Japan. Underwater robots are expected as applications which are able to operate and observe under water. Many kind of underwater robots exist. We focused on hovering type AUV (Autonomous Underwater Vehicle). Hovering type AUV is able to move several direction and observe complex environments. However, hovering type AUV need to equip many thruster. In this paper, the vectoring thruster module which is able to change direction of thruster was developed for hovering type AUV.
