Echo Voyager: New Frontiers in Unmanned Technology
,” said Towers. “So, realistically we know things will fail. This is why we added several redundant systems which helps drive the vehicles size, but also so that you can lose a significant proportion of the systems and the vehicle will still come back. There are also six emergency backup systems: you can lose four primary computer systems and six emergency controllers and the last one will get the vehicle to the surface.” Over the summer, the Echo Voyager is scheduled for further testing and validation in Huntington Beach, California, when the vehicle will be placed in
AXYS Leads the Way for Floating LiDAR
sea state conditions off the coast of Canada for over 30 years, so it is no surprise to us that our FLiDAR system has proven to be so reliable for conducting wind measurement campaigns in the harshest of offshore conditions.” AXYS now operates a lease pool of eight FLiDARs worldwide with two backup systems available on short notice. AXYS FLiDAR systems have been designed and hardened over the past seven years to increase survivability and maintain high levels of accuracy and data availability in extreme weather and sea states. Features such as dual-LiDAR, triple-redundant power supply and communications
February 2025
