SeeByte Host UK Defense Secretary Fallon
U.K. Defense Secretary Michael Fallon has met with leading Scottish based companies that are bringing cutting edge technology to the front line. Fallon visited SeeByte, a software SME and Finmeccanica Airborne and Space Systems Division, Edinburgh, a defense electronics, communications and radar company. SeeByte provides the MOD with software that pilots its underwater unmanned vehicles (UUVs). The firm, which employs 61 people, was awarded a £1.1 million contract in December 2014 by the MOD, and has since integrated its software onto three Iver3 underwater unmanned
Autonomous Robot Maps Ship Hulls for Mines
for minesweeping and other risky underwater missions. The ultimate goal is to design completely autonomous robots that can navigate and map cloudy underwater environments — without any prior knowledge of those environments — and detect mines as small as an iPod. Now Franz Hover, the Finmeccanica Career Development Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and graduate student Brendan Englot have designed algorithms that vastly improve such robots’ navigation and feature-detecting capabilities. Using the group’s algorithms, the robot is able to swim around