Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
Autonomous Underwater Vehicles – AUVs offer the ultimate in autonomous remote subsea survey/inspection capability. These free-swimming autonomous underwater vehicles are characterised by great manoeuvrability and high accuracy of stabilisation. Hydrodynamic shape, accurate instruments and excellent battery capacity makes these AUV’s an ideal choice.
Features
Key features
- Very stable and low noise hydrodynamic platform for payload sensors
- High manoeuvrability providing terrain following and turning radius of 15 metres
- Operating depths of 3000, 4500 and 6000 metres
- Operator supervised (“acoustic tether”), semiautonomous or autonomous operation
- State of the art Aided Inertial Navigation System (AINS)
- Provides robustness and sound technical solutions to the demands of modern navies
- Latest battery technology with up to 100 hours endurance at 4 knots
- Highly flexible configuration and integration of payload systems
- Typical payload sensors are synthetic aperture sonar or side-scan sonar, multibeam echo sounder, sub-bottom profiler, camera, CTD and volume search sonar
Applications
Commercial applications
- High-resolution high-speed seabed mapping and imaging
- Geophysical site inspection
- Pipeline and subsea structure inspection
- Oceanographic surveys
- Environmental monitoring
- Marine geological survey
- Search operations
Defence applications
- Mine countermeasures – MCM
- Rapid environmental assessment – REA
- Intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance – ISR