HydroSurv Sells Three REAV-16 USVs to MSeis
will allow MSeis to multiply the productivity and efficiency gains offered by small USVs and we’re confident they will deliver outstanding performance and results for this important new customer”.According to HydroSurv, MSeis selected REAV-16s due to their ease of operation, communications capability and onboard computing power. "The versatile craft provide a most suitable platform for mounting small hydrophone arrays or calibrated hydrophones that can be towed or accurately positioned on station respectively. Simple deployment, requiring no specialized equipment, was also
Final Autonomous Minehunting Boat Delivered to UK Royal Navy
, “RNMB Hebe is the final piece in the jigsaw of Project Wilton’s maritime capability.“The vessel is a 15-meter Vahana boat, four-meters longer than the other Project Wilton vessels. AEUK have made significant upgrades resulting in Hebe having an organic command, control and communications capability which allows the autonomous control of her sister vessel Harrier.“She also has the ability to operate towed sidescan sonar to map the seabed.”From the relative comfort of Hebe, mine countermeasures experts can coordinate and control the boats or monitor autonomous offboard sensors
Autonomy: Inside the Building of Ocean Infinity’s Armada Fleet
few years we would expect our road map to take us to one mariner supervising two of these vessels or maybe even three.”Michael King, Business Development Manager at Ocean InfinityThen, to enable remote control, each vessel will have two large satellite domes, in addition to VSAT and 3-5G communications capability. “You can miniaturize everything you want in robotics these days; you can make tiny computers and tiny computers,” says King, speaking at the joint Hydrographic Society, IMCA, SUT seminar. “But the one thing you can’t miniaturize is a satellite dish and the truth
Austrlia DST Chooses Sonardyne's BlueComm
(MAS).BlueComm is the only commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) technology that enables wireless transmission of high bandwidth tactical data, including video, over ranges of a few tens or even hundreds of meters, at rates of up to 10 megabits per second.With it, forces can vastly increase the communications capability of their underwater systems to drive faster, safer and better-informed decision making in theaters of operation. It could be considered for use with swarms of autonomous vehicles mapping areas for mine-like objects, for USVs acting as surface communication gateways or as part of emerging
It’s Only Just the Start for Subsea Drones
, “This is just the start. It’s the start of a radical change and technology innovation. But we need more of it and need you helping us on this journey.” The next big decision for this space is set to be made on the Snorre Expansion Project, for which the required power and communications capability to support drones has been designed in.A docking station, which had previously been used in a demonstration with Saab Seaeye in Norway, will be taken offshore to the Åsgard field, where an Eelume ‘snake’ robot will be tested on a tether, now next year. Meanwhile, after
View from the Top: Dan Hook, ASV
mention here is the launch of some signifi cant enhancements to our control software and hardware system “ASView.” With the support of some UK Government innovation grants (Innovate UK) and our own internal investment we have been developing an over the horizon satellite communications capability. This will be complete with new operator assistance tools including COLREG compliant collision avoidance and multi-sensor fusion to give a navigational picture for safe operation. Looking at “Autonomy” as a whole in the maritime sector, can you put in perspective for
February 2025
