Real world footage of reach alpha arm on BR2?

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Hi,

Does anybody have a real world underwater footage of reach alpha manipulator on a BR2 doing real work at sea ? Could not find anything on Youtube.

Maybe @PaulP or @Alex_UJI1 or @Taizo or @PoseidonROV ?

Thanks !

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No, so far we have only tested the BlueROV + Reach Alpha in our water tank

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No footage I’m afraid. Most customers (apart from universities and nonprofits) typically are under NDAs with their end clients. So while they might be doing something as simple as recovering a dropped wrench in a water treatment plant, they would not be allowed to share that footage. Thus, once we install the Reach Alpha on a Blue ROV2 or Lanai and ship it, that’s the last we’ll ever see of the system.

Having installed Reach Alpha 3 and 5 axis manipulators on Blue ROVs and talked the the people the ran them, I can say that a Blue ROV2 Heavy with 8 thrusters is required. Without 4 vertical thrusters for pitch stabilization, there is almost no “reaction force” for the arm to push against.

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