The latest ASV / USV news for Autonomous and Unmanned Surface Vehicles. Articles on commercial and naval USV, military ASV, uncrewed surface vessels, product launches and technological advances in USV design and manufacture
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
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
At the start of May 2023, the VSR700 performed 80 successful, fully autonomous take-offs and landings from a civil vessel equipped with a helicopter deck, cruising off the west coast of France
L3Harris’ ASView system will be integrated with BigBear.ai’s forecasting computer vision technology to better identify and classify vessels, enhance situational awareness and support manned-unmanned teaming missions
Kongsberg Discovery’s MBR products can now use the 5.725-5.850 GHz communications band to support maritime applications where digital high-speed reliable communication and data transfer are crucial
Taking place 9-11 May 2023 in Rostock, Germany, UDT offers a chance to see the progress that has been made across the underwater domain, including enhanced and improved technologies, new programs, and new equipment
The EchoBoat-160 USV, a purpose-built remote survey platform for hydrographic data collection, will be available for hire from Unique Group’s Houston facility
The UX1-Neo ROV by UNEXMIN Georobotics set a new world record by diving to a depth of 450 meters in the Hranice Abyss, the deepest freshwater cave in the world
Blue Essence from Fugro is believed to be the first USV to receive approval from the Maritime and Coastguard Agency to operate fully remotely with an electric ROV and undertake surveys in UK waters
Incorporating Sea Machines' SM300 autonomous command and control solution, Zelim’s Guardian fast rescue craft will be the world’s first search and rescue vessel capable of uncrewed operation
A Memorandum of Understanding signed by Saildrone and Seabed 2030 outlines a shared commitment to leveraging technological innovation to make bathymetric data available to the global community
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