With the continuous expansion of deep-sea resource exploration, marine environmental monitoring, and underwater operations, Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) have been increasingly widely applied. Aiming at the demand for high-performance main propulsion systems of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs), this paper conducts research on the structural design and hydrodynamic performance of a 30 kW rim-driven thruster (RDT) a...

An underwater towed vehicle serves as an effective and widely applicable mobile marine observation platform. Existing towed vehicles rely heavily on cables for depth adjustment. They also suffer from poor hydrodynamic efficiency and insufficient instrument space. To address these limitations, this study developed a novel compensation control system. This system regulates the vehicle’s vertical movement and cable deployment by...