Marine Autonomy Above & Below the Water
technology. The company, which speaks of a goal to have 100% of its subsea inspection activities with unmanned systems by 2025, has been supporting UK-based USV manufacturer L3Harris UK on project called ARISE. It stands for Autonomous Robotic Intervention System for Extreme Maritime Environments, an Innovate UK part-funded project which involved the University of Exeter as an academic partner.James Cowles, Commercial Technical Sales Manager from L3Harris UK, says doing autonomous subsea inspection takes the “dull, dirty and dangerous” work off humans. Instead of having a 24m-long vessel with
Hybrid Autonomous Systems Evolve
technology. The company, which speaks of a goal to have 100% of its subsea inspection activities with unmanned systems by 2025, has been supporting UK-based USV manufacturer L3Harris UK on project called ARISE. It stands for Autonomous Robotic Intervention System for Extreme Maritime Environments, an Innovate UK part-funded project which involved the University of Exeter as an academic partner.L3 Harris UK’s C-Worker 7 working with an ROV off the UK’s south coast. Photos from L3 Harris UK.James Cowles, Commercial Technical Sales Manager from L3Harris UK, says doing autonomous subsea inspection
AUV Project Boosts Endurance, Navigation Capabilities
and navigational precision.The £1.4 million ($1.8 million) Precise Positioning for Persistent Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (P3AUV) project, led by subsea technology specialist Sonardyne International Ltd., with partners the National Oceanography Center (NOC) and L3Harris, and part funded by Innovate UK, has set new standards for long-endurance underwater navigation and automated subsea positioning of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV).In addition, the project also set out to increase the use of autonomy in offshore survey positioning operations using unmanned surface vessels (USV), and in
SMD Introduces New Work Class ROV
and ROV thrusters for over 20 years. As specialists in high power motor drive technology, our parent company, CRRC Tec, have given us access to high power systems technology that would be otherwise inaccessible to the subsea sector. All of this, combined with financial support from our parent and Innovate UK has put us in a unique position to bring a world class electric ROV system to the market.”Liu Kean, President of CRRC-TEC, has committed to support SMD by sharing TEC core technology from their advanced high speed train to develop SMD’s new generation of ROV and Trenching technology
Rovco Nets $12.8 Mln in 12 Months
in Aberdeen, confirmed the news that it had grown substantially from the previous period where revenue was £450,000. This marks an increase of over 2,000% on its 2017/18 performance. The work includes long term subsea framework agreements, technology platform sales and research grants from Innovate UK and the Oil and Gas Technology Center. This has been generated alongside numerous remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROV) inspections and hydrographic surveys primarily to offshore wind farms and other tier 1 service companies in the UK and Asia markets.The organization also introduced its
Modus Acquires Second Sabertooth HAUV
;s Facility in Sweden to perform a “mow the lawn” style pre-programmed survey collecting multibeam echosounder (MBES), side scan sonar (SSS) and sub-bottom profiler (SBP) data over about 15 kilometers, with no external aiding from a support vessel.In early 2018, a trial as part of an Innovate UK funded project for wind farm resident inspection performed out of the ORE Catapult facility in Blyth, England, involved indirect power coupling and data transfer using a Blue Logic inductive connector. In the final phase of this demonstrator project, later this year, in between its commercial
Flying new Routes Subsea
the vehicle’s DGPS, INS and DVL). “Having gone out and repeated the survey, it saw very little drift,” says Ward. The vehicle was also successfully trialed multiple times, autonomously docking into its subsea garage. In early 2018, this function was further developed, as part of an Innovate UK funded project for wind farm resident inspection performed. This trial was run at the ORE Catapult facility in Blyth and also involved indirect power coupling and data transfer using a Blue Logic inductive connector. In the final phase of this funded demonstrator project, later this year
Sonardyne’s SPRINT-Nav 700 selected for new under-ice AUV
facing mankind, including climate change.”Sonardyne’s relationship with the NOC extends back over more than two decades, when it started supplying the NOC’s research ships with USBL acoustic tracking technology. More recently, the NOC and Sonardyne have worked together on a number of Innovate UK funded projects, with the latest being the Precise Positioning for Persistent AUVs (P3AUV) project, which is trialing new advanced navigation techniques on NOC’s ‘Boaty McBoatface’ Autosub Long Range (ALR) and new ALR1500 vehicles. Sonardyne is a partner at the NOC's Marine
Rovco Awarded Funding for 3D Visualization Project
intelligence (AI) systems with ROV platforms could transform the way offshore inspections are carried out and reduce costs by millions each year.The U.K. based firm, which has been working to advance the technology, has recently been awarded further funding by the U.K.’s innovation agency, Innovate UK, to develop the next stage of its integrated live 3D vision and AI survey technology.The funding will support the project's next stage, AUV3D Phase 2, which continues from the Phase 1 project and trials proving the technology at the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult’s test center
Sonardyne Leads AUV Collaboration Project
The UK-based underwater positioning and communications technology company Sonardyne International Ltd has initiated a collaborative project to drive a major step change in ocean system autonomy for long-endurance autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs).The aim of the Innovate UK-supported Precise Positioning for Persistent AUVs (P3AUV) project is to enable AUVs to operate at high levels of navigation performance with less surface support and for longer periods.The provider of underwater acoustic, inertial, optical and sonar technology said in a release that with partners L3 ASV and the National Oceanograp
