supported by the Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University (Grant No.IRT0734);the National Natural Science Foundation of China ( Grant Nos.10872098,10572063);the State Key Laboratory of Ocean Engineering,Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Grant No.0502)
Three-dimensional motion equations of a marine Tethered Remotely Operated Vehicle (TROV) system with large elastic deformation and snap loads are formulated using the lumped parameter model. This formulation is simp...