Advanced Navigation Unveils Hi-Tech Robotics Facility in Australia for AI-Powered Navigation Systems
Advanced Navigation, an innovator in artificial intelligence (AI) for robotic and navigation technologies, has unveiled a new high-tech robotics facility for autonomous systems based at the UTS Tech Lab in Botany, New South Wales (NSW), Australia.The facility will scale up the manufacturing of Advanced Navigation’s world-first AI navigation systems for GPS-denied environments, including its digital fiber-optic gyroscope (DFOG) technology, Boreas.Advanced Navigation says it is one of only four companies in the world with the capability to manufacture strategic grade fiber-optic gyroscopes."Thi
Advanced Navigation Opens Subsea Robotics Center in Australia
established headquarters in Sydney with research centers throughout Australia, including Brisbane for aerial drone technology, Canberra for photonic and laser technology and Newcastle for quantum sensing.In addition to novel autonomous subsea robotics, Advanced Navigation delivers AI-enhanced navigation technologies for land, sea, air and space applications
U. of Plymouth, Sonardyne Collaborate on Marine MonitoringTech
within the UK’s growing marine robotic and autonomous systems sector. The partnership will advance ocean data gathering technologies and platforms by leveraging the University’s academic resources and research facilities, Sonardyne’s leading acoustic and inertial navigation technologies, and the marine proving area Smart Sound Plymouth.Under the new agreement, the partners will work together to evaluate and develop emerging technologies on the university’s fleet of crewed and uncrewed surface and underwater platforms, all underpinned by a suite of Sonardyne&rsquo
Boreas D90: Digital Fiber-Optic Gyroscope (DFOG) Technology
has promise to revolutionize many subsea and maritime market navigation applications. Xavier Orr, CEO discussed the innovation and the potential with Marine Technology Reporter.Advanced Navigation is a privately owned Australian company that specializes in the development and manufacturing of navigation technologies and robotics, including a broad range of fields including sensors, GNSS, inertial navigation, RF technologies, acoustics, robotics, AI and algorithms.Today the company has more than 40,000 products in the field and operating, globally in the automotive, maritime, subsea survey and offshore
It’s Only Just the Start for Subsea Drones
drones; NOV Seabox with its subsea water treatment technology (tested at the same site); Saipem’s Hydrone R and FlatFish (models of), Saab Seaeye’s Sabertooth, owned by Modus Seabed Intervention; i-Tech7’s AIV (a model of); Innova and Sonardyne, with BlueComm, positioning and navigation technologies; Eelume; Unitech’s Zefyros offshore test station; Grip Offshore, with a new design electric manipulator; and Hydromea, with an optical modem. The Tau test site is set to be turned into a test and training center for autonomous air and sea drones. With a safety training facility
DOF Subsea Upgrades ROV Fleet
also benefit from Sonardyne Brasil Ltda.’s support here in Brazil, from training to support during installation and commissioning, all by local specialized field engineers.”Within the last year alone, Sonardyne has supplied nine Brazil based vessels with its acoustic positioning and navigation technologies, from Ultra-Short BaseLine (USBL) systems to hybrid navigation technology, the company said
Greensea Hires Parrilla as Robotics Engineer
operating platform OPENSEA, has recently announced the appointment of Matthew Parrilla as Robotics Engineer. Parrilla will work in the Emerging Technologies group at Greensea, led by founder and CEO Ben Kinnaman. This group focuses on the next generation of supervised autonomy and navigation technologies behind Greensea's marine software. Prior to joining Greensea, Matthew was a lead developer of a customer facing application at Cox Automotive, Inc. He earned a B.S. degree in Physics from the University of Maryland, worked as a data visualization artist, co-founded a startup, and
UTEC Comes up Big Offshore
Survey says it has completed a significant ROV navigation and seismic node positioning project in deepwater Gulf of Mexico. The project, carried out for seismic nodal technology company FairfieldNodal and undertaken in 2,425 meters of water, involved use of the latest software and navigation technologies available to simplify operations, increase cost savings on an original scope of work, provide greater precision, increase efficiencies and thereby reduce job time. UTEC conducted the project using a combination of acoustics and inertial positioning technology. A key element was
Subsea 7 Employs Sonardyne’s Acoustic and Inertial Navigation
Subsea engineering, construction and installation company, Subsea 7, has made use of acoustic and inertial navigation technologies from Sonardyne International Ltd. during a project to install flowlines, risers and subsea structures at a new deepwater field development in the Gulf of Mexico, due to commence production in 2016. Fred Goodloe III, Project Surveyor for Subsea 7 worked closely with Sonardyne’s in-house Survey Support Group (SSG) to meet the complex positioning requirements of the project, together determining the optimum configuration of subsea, ROV and vessel-based
February 2024
