Deliverable ISSIA 4.2 RITMARE

The main task of the present work is to describe the realization of the new unmanned marine vehicle e-URoPe, belonging to the newest class of underwater vehicles capable of working both in the remotely controlled configuration with a tether cable (ROV) and autonomously without a tether cable (AUV). e-URoPe is realized by CNR-ISSIA adopting the most innovative technical capabilities. This hybrid vehicle has a flexible structure adequate to withstand external impacts, electronic core completely innovative and enhanced global characteristics. The peculiarities of the vehicle, on which is based the design concept, are easiness of construction, facility of re-configuration and flexibility. After the design of the vehicle, CNR-ISSIA has followed and supervised the realization of various components while others were directly realized inside the institute. The ISSIA's laboratory hosted the assembly of the vehicle. e-URoPe was designed with the idea of a machine that could be easily transportable and deployable by a small team of scientists. The team has the possibility to re-configure the vehicle by using simple tools.