General Robotics LimGeneral Robotics Limited (GRL) is launching DeepView 2.0, its subsea visualisation software, and DeepLive, a real-time data capture module.
DeepView 2.0 is an advanced visualisation and animation tool for creating subsea scenarios that allow multiple concurrent views of an operation with full data recording and replay in 3D.
DeepView 2.0 is equipped with an easy-to-use operator interface that simplifies the creation of complex underwater representations. The new interface enables the easy generation of scenarios by using ‘drag and drop’ to add components in the subsea model, and as an object oriented system the specific properties of different objects can be immediately viewed. DeepView includes a library of standard structures and components.
By allowing the play and replay of any subsea situation, DeepView provides an excellent tool for training and planning, and for generating marketing visualisations. DeepView is especially useful when used with DeepLive to show what is happening in real-time with a scenario that responds to the input of live data.
“DeepView 2.0 gives our customers an advanced tool for viewing deployed assets in an exceptionally easy manner that reduces stress in an operational environment. The ease of operation of the new user interface in DeepView, is characteristic of our next generation of software,” said Dr. Jason Tisdall, Managing Director, General Robotics Limited. “Used with DeepLive, DeepView is an ideal visualisation tool for use offshore in support vessels to show in 3D what is actually happening underwater, as an aid to operational decisions.”
“We will be using DeepView as part of the training process for adopting DeepSim 2.0 when that becomes available, and also to render the tabular data output of some of our specialist software into a more immediately understandable 3D graphical view,” commented Giorgio Martelli, General Manager, Saipem UK Sonsub Division.
DeepLive is a supplementary data input module for DeepView and the forthcoming release of DeepSim 2.0. DeepLive accepts GPS and USBL data inputs to show the position in a 3D visualisation, of subsea objects like a vessel and its ROV, or a pipe-lay barge and its anchor lines. This allows real-time tracking of ROV manoeuvres near a subsea structure, or monitoring touchdown during cable or pipeline deployment. DeepLive also reduces operator stress because the operator now has a clear view of where his assets are in the real world and in real-time.