Learn how to operate the Gaps Series
Purchase your e-learning pass to access the course's content on a dedicated platform.
Overview
You will start learning about Gaps using a dedicated platform on your own time. You are granted access to the lessons, including all the updates available to the curriculum during 6 months after your first log in. You can replay the lessons after completion of the course to refresh your memory. A final quiz is also available for you to make a self assessment of your knowledge on Gaps.
- Introduction
2 min video presentation of the course
How to use this e-learning platform
Let's get started - Objectives, learning process and evaluation criteria
Theory modules covered in this course
Pre-course survey
- Module 01 - General Presentation
Gaps introduction
Description and product layout
Product Overview
Gaps M7 and Gaps M5 Datasheet
Video tour of Gaps
Software Included
Compatible beacons
Deployment methods
- Module 02 - USBL theory and principles of acoustic positioning
- Gaps Acoustic Signal Processing Principles
Range Performance Factors - The Sonar Equation
Angle accuracy - The Woodward formula
Sonar equation and Woodward formula calculator
Hybrid Systems - Coupling USBL and INS
- Module 03 - Installation
Gaps Antenna mechanical installation
GNSS Installation
Gaps Box
Connecting Gaps
Managing Gaps from a computer
Testing the equipment
- Module 04 - Configuration
HMI Overview - 1 of 3
HMI - Configuring the Input and Output Parameters - 2 of 3
Interrogation modes
MT9 Beacon Settings
HMI - Setting up the acoustics part - 3 of 3
Setting up - Position Rate & Blanking Time
Upload a new Sound Velocity Profile
Logging Data
Dynamic Positioning Modes
- Module 05 - Operations
INS alignment
Testing procedures
Launching the survey
How to perform INS-USBL coupling for ROV
Setting up USBL-INS coupling using acoustic communication
Deploying the Transponders
Recovering the equipment
Controlling the data
- Module 06 - Software Interfacing
Delph RoadMap - Set up - 1 of 2
Delph RoadMap - Operating - 2 of 2
Interfacing to DP and navigation sw
- Module 07 - Maintenance
General recommendations
Checking the electrical ground
Connecting a new Gaps Box
Maintaining the SUBCONN connectors
Firmware maintenance (update)
Gaps Arm Removal
Gaps M7 calibration after arm removal
- Final Test
Gaps Course Test