ARMS: A Proven, Remotely Operated Manipulator System Ready Now to Support Offshore Drilling in Depths to 13,000 Feet

The purpose of this paper is to provide insight into the development of a technology which allows remote operation of "ARMS", a sophisticated force- feedback manipulator system, when interfaced with any one of a broad range of commercially available unmanned submersibles. The technology allows high speed multiplexing of all transmitted information over a significant length of umbilical cable, without degradation of manipulator operation. This paper will discuss the specific design considerations of the ARMS Multiplex System. The paper will conclude that the data from these fore-mentioned sources demonstrates the success of this technological development and its immediate avail- ability for offshore applications.