Buoyancy system for an underwater device and associated methods for operating the same
a technology of underwater equipment and buoyancy system, which is applied in underwater equipment, special-purpose vessels, lighting and heating apparatus, etc., can solve the problem of heavy nose of underwater glider, and achieve the effect of improving heat transfer and a large surface area
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[0023]The present invention will now be described more fully hereinafter with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which preferred embodiments of the invention are shown. This invention may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein. Rather, these embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete, and will fully convey the scope of the invention to those skilled in the art. Like numbers refer to like elements throughout.
[0024]Referring initially to FIG. 1, an underwater device 10 comprises a housing 12, and a buoyancy system 20 carried by the housing. The underwater device 10 is illustrated as an autonomous underwater glider that may be used to collect subsurface data in an observation region. The underwater glider is neutrally buoyant, and travels through the water in a saw-tooth-sampling pattern 22 by using the buoyancy system 20 to change its buoyancy. Although the und...
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