Find Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) companies and suppliers of unmanned surface vessels, USV boats and unmanned sea vehicles for hydrographic survey, oceanographic research and other military applications
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Inertial Navigation & Positioning Technology for Unmanned, Autonomous Systems
Autonomous and Unmanned Marine Vehicles: USV, AUV, Marine ROV; Profiling Floats & Towed Systems
Advanced Man-Portable USV Platforms for Defense, Tactical & Government Missions
GNSS Positioning Systems, 3D SLAM & Mobile Mapping, Unmanned Surface Vehicles
UAV Components: SAR, Radar Altimeter, Data Links, Telemetry, GNSS Products & C-UAS | Tactical USVs
Autonomous Boats & Unmanned Surface Vessels for Marine Monitoring, Hydrographic Survey & Rescue
GNSS Positioning & Navigation Systems, Mobile Mapping UAV LiDAR & Unmanned Surface Vehicles
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Unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) are water-borne vessels that are capable of operating on the surface of the water without any onboard human operators. Originally created by retrofitting previously manned craft with radio controls, a wide variety of purpose-built unmanned surface vehicles are now available. USVs are more versatile than buoys but less costly than fully manned craft, making them popular for a range of marine applications.
Oceanalpha Unmanned Surface Vehicles
USVs can be linked together as part of a swarm with individual craft acting as a node in a communications or sensor network, allowing them to be used as a force multiplier either for defense applications such as minesweeping or patrolling, or completing scientific surveying or sampling missions more rapidly.
Military applications for USVs include border and littoral zone patrol, minesweeping, submarine hunting, ISR, seaborne targets and offensive capabilities. USVs are also used in commercial sectors such as oceanography and environmental sciences, exploration and the oil and gas industry.
Due to the lack of crew, an unmanned or autonomous surface vehicle can be outfitted with more sensors and equipment than an equivalently-sized manned craft. Such equipment may include sonar, imaging systems, radar, ISR systems, environmental sensors and dataloggers, weapons payloads, or a small unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV). Equipment may also be towed behind the USV.
Teledyne Marine Q-Boat 1250 Portable USV
Unmanned surface vessels can be deployed from shore or from the deck of a larger ship and can also be used to deploy smaller UUVs. USVs can be controlled remotely by a human operator and may also have autonomous functionality. ASVs (autonomous surface vehicles) can be set to intelligently follow pre-programmed routes and waypoints. Many USVs can alternate between full autonomy, semi-autonomy or set to manual control.
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