Kongsberg Maritime Nets Delivery Contract for Largest HUGIN AUV
fault management for autonomous missions. A system of graceful degradation has been implemented, providing redundancy and resilience for key safety capabilities, Kongsberg Maritime said.“HUGIN Endurance pushes the boundaries for autonomous over-the-horizon operations of an AUV” said Richard Mills, Vice President of Marine Robotics Sales. “It has taken more than 30 years of hard-won experience to enable us to deliver this capability in such a short time. It builds on the proven capabilities of HUGIN and HUGIN Superior, and together with the recently launched HUGIN Edge demonstrates
AUV Extravaganza: Tech Advances in Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
and recovery and charging and data offload. Kongsberg hopes to deliver the first systems to customers by the end of 2023.A nod to the pastThe most distinctive feature is its design. This harks back to the first HUGIN design from the 1990s, which had a more Rankine-Carmichael hydrodynamic style, said Richard Mills, VP, Marine Robotics Sales, Kongsberg, while also drawing on work Kongsberg is doing on naval strike missiles.The early vehicle was very low drag and “super high efficiency,” but that efficiency was lost as soon as holes were cut in it for sensors or modular sections, he says. The
Deployable from USV: Kongsberg Launches New AUV at Oceanology International
battery charging through inductive power providing true over-the-horizon operations. "This capability removes the human from the field of operations, enabling supervision from afar to minimize operational risk, maximise safety and deliver the lowest carbon footprint," Kongsberg said.Richard Mills, Vice President of Marine Robotics Sales at KM, said: “Since the first dive of HUGIN on 7th March 1993 it has evolved into the most successful commercial off-the-shelf autonomous underwater vehicle ever made. "In that time, the shape has changed, from a smooth low-drag design
Ocean Infinity Orders Six HUGIN AUVs
, we'll be supporting the growing renewables sector with remote data and inspection services.”“This latest order from Ocean Infinity takes their fleet of HUGIN AUVs to more than 20, making them uniquely placed to deliver data acquisition services at an unmatched scale,” added Richard Mills, Vice President Marine Robotics Sales with Kongsberg Maritime. “They also include the introduction of some new capabilities enabling operators to interface more easily with third-party software and also control adaptive behaviours in response to data collected in-mission.”Josh Broussard
No Need for Mothership: Kongsberg Launches HUGIN Endurance AUV
from surface vessels but also compared with other AUV operations, as the reduction in the need for surface support further diminishes the environmental footprint," the company said.“We are proud to launch HUGIN Endurance, which represents a step-change in AUV operations,” says Richard Mills, Vice President of Marine Robotics Sales, Kongsberg Maritime."Teaming long endurance with large area coverage capabilities allows a single AUV to map areas up to 1,100 square kilometers in a single mission – a target impossible until now. With its unprecedented long-range capability
Hugin AUV Scores 2020 AUVSI ECELLENCE Awards
bathymetry with better than 5 x 5cm resolution. “Winning a top-three placing in this AUVSI XCELLENCE award category is not just a welcome vindication of the HUGIN Superior AUV’s abilities, but also of its implications as a key ally in the ongoing custodianship of our oceans,” says Richard Mills, VP Marine Robotics Sales, Kongsberg Maritime. “In addition to the assistance it will provide to various organizations in support of the Seabed 2030 mission to map every inch of the ocean floor within the next decade, the detailed data it accumulates is indispensable for reinforcing the
Untethered Vehicle Tech Continues to Advance Autonomy
; found in the sector. While not all the presentations addressed this theme, several helped clarify the many ways this “buzzword” is advancing the capabilities of untethered marine vehicles.Kongsberg Maritime offered two presentations: “How Autonomous is Your AUV” presented by Richard Mills and “Autonomous Technology for Ocean Exploration,” by Arnt Olsen. Together these presentations used the context of Kongsberg’s vehicles, especially the Hugin AUV and the Sounder USV, to discuss what autonomous technology means, and is capable of. In the case of the USV there
Kongsberg Sells HUGIN AUV System to NIOT
surveyed than any other untethered underwater vehicle.Developed in partnership with FFI, the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, HUGIN continues to improve with new capabilities, sensors and behaviors being added each year.“We are honored to welcome NIOT to the HUGIN family,” said Richard Mills, Vice President of Marine Robotics Sales at Kongsberg Maritime. “Their new HUGIN AUV System is configured for their needs today and tomorrow with a multi-role capability. We look forward to working with the scientific teams from the Oceanographic Research Institutes of India over the coming
Subsea Mining: The Next Big Thing for UUVs
experience of offshore oil and gas (risers, umbilical, surveys and “drones”) with the experience of dredging; nearshore diamond and gold mining and the land-based mining industry. “It is a relatively small industry sector at the moment, but with potential to grow,” says Richard Mills, Kongsberg Maritime’s director of Marine Robotics sales. While its clear that Kongsberg’s payload-rich, torpedo-shaped AUVs will be valuable as pre- and post-exploitation survey vehicles, there might also be a subsea mining role “in association with the excavators” for
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