Marine Unmanned Surface Systems (USV) News

BMT seeks to balance operational capability and cost-effective mass with this LUSV evolution of the company’s Highly Autonomous Warship Technologies

The configurable ZEPHR USV platform will have a high resolution multibeam echosounder as its primary payload, with the capability to mount additional sensors such as LiDAR and cameras

A new collaboration revealed at DSEI between Robosys Automation and Landau Marine enables the swift conversion of vessels to fully autonomous and/or lean-crewed operations

The DriX USV can conduct over-the-horizon supervised autonomous operations thanks to its A.I powered CortiX software, its state-of-the-art sensors and its Communication suite

SEABOTS' advanced USVs are ideal for real-time monitoring, inspections, environmental insight gathering and more

Oceanology International is set to return to London from 12th-14th March 2024, with prospective speakers invited to submit proposals by 12th September 2023

The built-in autonomous navigation system enables Ørsted's MetOcean unmanned surface vessel (USV) to transit from shore at various levels of autonomy, offering advantages over conventional solutions that rely on large support vessels

Robosys' Voyager AI Vessel solution is being installed onto Lynx Power Catamarans to enable crewed, lean crewed, optionally unmanned and fully unmanned options at the switch of a button

USV AS chooses Maritime Robotics Autonomous Navigation System for its first USV, a 24 meter long vessel for subsea work, to enable uncrewed navigation

The ULAQ KAMA by Ares Shipyard and Meteksan Defence can serve as both a deterrent weapon and unmanned ISR platform with its uninterruptible communication system and very low silhouette

YAKAMOS-RT a retractable sonar system, developed for patrol boats and unmanned naval vehicles operating in shallow waters, will be introduced by Meteksan Defence at IDEF 2023 in Turkey

Exail has opened a new innovation hub at the University of New Hampshire that will be used to deliver increased operational advantage to U.S. civil and government autonomous marine operations

This contract with Huntington Ingalls represents an expansion of its work with the US Navy to increase the speed and quality of maintenance cycles for surface ships, including amphibious assault ships

A platform-agnostic, computationally lightweight online learning and adaptive control architecture, Aurora's Falcon solution can detect destabilization quickly and reconstitute control online for safe and continued operation

In total, 12 Saildrone Explorers will be deployed throughout the mission, storm chasing in the Tropical Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico to study why some relatively mild tropical storms rapidly intensify into major hurricanes

The USV for Connecticut-based ThayerMahan includes a new winch system, developed by SEA-KIT to integrate with the company’s proprietary virtual helm station to enable deployment of large, towed arrays and sensors

Ørsted has prototyped and patented the Hugin USV, designed to help lower uncertainties in the expected annual energy production for new offshore wind farms

Here’s our round-up of the five most read articles on UnmannedSystemsTechnology.com this week

The tests with RNMB Apollo prove remotely controlled uncrewed vessels can be operated by a team at a shore-based control station, carrying out a series of tasks, while retaining awareness of its course and position utilizing line of sight communications systems

Integration of Robosys’ Voyager AI intelligent navigation software together with SEA.AI’s Sentry enables vessels to benefit from market-leading obstacle and collision avoidance that is further enhanced by non-fatigue optical algorithms

The USV will be HydroSurv’s most advanced REAV-28 build to date and its first to be fitted with state-of-the-art command and control software developed by marine autonomy company Robosys Automation

Approval in Principle (AIP), an important first step to full classification of a new maritime vehicle, was awarded to the Saildrone Voyager and Surveyor

Maritime Tactical Systems’ Devil Ray T24 is a high performance ASV capable of burst speeds up to 50 kts and open ocean cruising ranges up to 600 nautical miles, with a payload capacity up to 1,800 pounds

Carried out over 13 hours, the Eidsvaag Pioner vessel undocked from the port of Averøy, sailed to the world’s first ocean fish-farm and back to port again

The merger will deliver a broad offering of both near-shore and long-endurance USVs for ocean data collection, hydrographic, geophysical and environmental survey, and surveillance and monitoring of offshore infrastructure

Meteksan Defence is exhibiting its products at LIMA 2023 in Langkawi Island, Malaysia, these include YAKAMOS 2020 Hull Mounted Sonar System and the NAZAR Laser Electronic Warfare System