The smooth launch and recovery of a HUGIN AUV has been demonstrated using a new system from H. Henriksen AS. Capable of being used by a wide range of small manned or unmanned auxiliary craft, the Henriksen Launch and Recovery System introduces a versatile new option for the operators of AUVs and UUVs. The lightweight system can be deployed by
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New standards in long-endurance underwater navigation and automated subsea positioning have been set following the successful completion of a joint project led by Sonardyne International Ltd., with partners the U.K. National Oceanography Centre (NOC) and L3Harris. The two-year, £1.4 million Precise Positioning for Persistent Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (P3AUV) project, partly funded by Innovate UK, set out to integrate existing and
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The in-mission processor allows real-time processing of HISAS data, allowing operators to download high-resolution images immediately when the vehicle returns from its mission.
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The U.S. Navy has chosen to procure Strategic Robotic Systems’ (SRS) FUSION unmanned underwater vehicle to be the future explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) ROV, with initial deliveries commencing in the third quarter of 2019. The SRS FUSION represents the next generation in expeditionary capable, compact, remotely operated underwater systems. As a fully battery powered system, the FUSION has an ultracompact footprint,
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Riptide and Draper will implement the maritime open architecture autonomy (MOAA) that Draper developed as an extensible open architecture framework for autonomous mission controllers for AUVs through millions of dollars of investment and decades of research and development. Draper has received approval from the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport to provide MOAA as an option on all Riptide UUVs
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L3 OceanServer was awarded a contract to support the U.S. Marine Corps Systems Command for an Iver3 UUV to be used for testing and evaluation. Over the past four years, L3 OceanServer has leveraged hundreds of thousands of operational hours on Iver vehicles to build a system with war fighter-driven attributes. With more than 300 vehicles sold to various customers
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