Design and Development of an Onshore Testing System for Autonomous Underwater Vehicle

Through and comprehensive tests are essential to ensure complete stability and reliability of autonomous underwater vehicle. Due to the high-cost and risk of the field test of underwater vehicle, onshore testing is needed. This paper presents the design and development of an onshore testing system for autonomous underwater vehicle; system architecture, workflow, implementation of key subsystems and some experimental results are described. Resort the onshore testing system, the performance of the vehicle can be tested comprehensively in a laboratory environment.