Software System for Determining and Visualizing Locations and Routes of Underwater Robots

This paper presents a software system for visualization of location and route of an underwater robot. The visualization is based on photos of seabed, which are taken by the camera of the robot. The robot also takes records for the photographed objects and stores them into KML format. The photos and the KML data are transferred to a device (a laptop or a computer), where the data are processed and the location and the traveled route of the robot are shown on a map in the web interface of the system. The robot and the presented system can be used to research the seabed relief and habitats, thus avoiding participation of divers and decreasing the risks for human lives under water.