Instrumentation And Control System of a Sand Mining System For Shallow Water

The functions of the crawler for mining and driving are all remotely controlled from the control computers on the ship. Various sensors allow comprehensive monitoring of the perfonnance of the crawler. The crawler computer is based on Pc/I04 modules in connection with a standard industrial field bus system (Interbus) for data acquisition and control. The software used in the sand mining system consists of the process visualisation software in the control room, the control software for development and implementation of the main control program, and the operating systems of the crawler computer and the control computers.