... manipulators. UTI '97 O SUT 1997 Parallels between the ISS and subsea production facilities are obvious but perhaps misleading Both involve operating in a hazardous, remote environment However subsea templates and manifolds generally represent one part of a larger system, whereas ISS is an isolated self...

... and dnven to mmic a similar arm on the outside of the box Powered and unpowered Master-Slave Manipulators (MSM) have been in use in the nuclear industry from that point up to the present day UTI '97 0 SUT 1997 Two developments starting in the seventies saw the sigruficant application of teleoperation spread...

... in the underwaterlsubsea technology environment, and more recently my involvement in the design, maintenance and operating specifications of manipulators and vehicles for remote intervention in the nuclear environment, I would like to present a comparative view of the differing requirements of the two industries...

... with the recent developments in ro- botlcs for underwater work suggested a possible solunon for a dverless repar statlon. This work presents a conceptual descnptlon of the mam element of a &verless repm station - the underwater habitat - consisang basically of robots and manipulators to pre- pare the pipe...