AUV Co-operation Pact

General Atomics, Kongsberg Maritime and C & C Technologies have agreed to co-operate on the development of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) and associated technologies. General Atomics (GA) and its affiliates are high-technology development companies in areas ranging from nuclear technologies and advanced defence and energy systems to Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), including the Predator, a remotely operated surveillance aircraft. GA is currently active in systems integration for several US Navy programmes, including an Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System, an Advanced Arresting Gear, Integrated Fight Through Power Conversion equipment, a Superconducting Homopolar Propulsion Motor, and an Electromagnetic Railgun. C & C Technologies... (read more)

2005-12-08 12:00:00

Iver2 AUV Orders

OceanServer Technology has received purchase orders for twelve new Iver2 AUVs from seven different customers during the last two months. Vehicle orders span four different defense related applications with the majority of these vehicles going to overseas customers. Research-related vehicles will be delivered to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI), University of Michigan, YSI Environmental and the US Naval Research Laboratory. The University of Michigan will be taking delivery of their third Iver2 AUV, which will be primarily used for benthic mapping and water quality monitoring in several EPA-designated "areas of concern" in and around the Great Lakes. OceanServer expects to... (read more)

2010-12-22 01:48:45

AUV cooperative agreement

General Atomics, Kongsberg Maritime and C&C Technologies have agreed to cooperate on the development of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) and associated technologies. This cooperation agreement forms a team with the expertise and capabilities required to further develop the technologies, operations, and production necessary to meet the challenges associated with a wide range of applications and system configurations for the AUVs of tomorrow. (read more)

2006-01-20 12:00:00

UTEC Doubles AUV Fleet

UTEC Survey, USA, has doubled its AUV fleet to four vehicles in response to increasing demand for its AUV services. The company now operates a fleet of identically equipped 1,000m rated AUV systems. The fleet offers enhanced subsea positioning, robust operational performance, and low logistics designed for dual-mode operations utilising clients' vessels of opportunity. The AUVs are comprised of separate modules enabling operators to change configuration by adding or removing sensor modules, subject to the requirements of each mission. Typical missions have included pre-route survey, structure and pipeline inspection, scour monitoring and shallow environmental investigation. The ability to rapidly reconfigure... (read more)

2014-05-02 08:59:23

AUV Ultra Stable Clock

ACSA Underwater GPS France has launched an embedded Ultra-Stable Clock specially designed for AUVs. Key features of that board are: 10-8 clock stability, low power consumption, automatic synchronisation on GPS time using vehicle’s GPS receiver, PC-104 size. Time is delivered through serial and TCP/IP links (NTP protocol). 8 Fully programmable trigger lines are used to synchronise up to 8 payloads. The electronic board is delivered with a manual and a configuration software. ACSA proposes also a surface version of this board to synchronise realtime computer clocks on GPS-UTC. This product is already in service onboard numerous AUVs worldwide. (read more)

2005-03-28 12:00:00

Optimising AUV Battery Efficiency

Steatite has worked with NOC to develop a mission-critical Lithium Primary solution that increased an AUV’s endurance while reducing the whole life cost. AUV deployment can be costly with limited deployment and recovery times, so deploying for as long as possible can be essential. Historically, NOC has used Alkaline and Lithium Polymer battery packs in AUVs but with the ever-increasing deployment demands on endurance, NOC required a fresh approach to power. Steatite’s Lithium Primary solution offered a number of benefits over the existing Alkaline solution such as greater endurance due to the increased energy density, weight saving,... (read more)

2013-04-09 02:33:14

C-Surveyor II AUV

A C & C Technologies deepwater AUV, C-Surveyor II, has been delivered to corporate headquarters. C & C purchased the C-Surveyor II as a base vehicle in November 2004 and has worked diligently over the last six months to integrate and build customised components for this next-generation survey AUV. The design of the C-Surveyor II is modelled on an existing AUV, C-Surveyor I, and includes a multi-beam echo sounder, chirp side-scan sonar, chirp sub-bottom profiler, CTD system and methane detector. The Edgetech DW106 sub-bottom profiler on board is customised with narrow transmit and receive beams to permit significantly deeper seabed... (read more)

2005-06-29 12:00:00

KAUST Purchases Hydroid AUV

Hydroid, USA, has delivered a REMUS 100 AUV to Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST). The REMUS AUV was procured by Naizak Global Engineering Services, KAUST’s purchasing agent and Unique Group, Hydroid’s representative in Saudi Arabia. KAUST will use the REMUS 100 AUV for marine ecology and geology research and education in the Red Sea. KAUST, which is wholly owned and run by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, needed a versatile AUV that could study the Red Sea from multiple angles and provide multiple functions, from climate-related sea floor sampling to oceanographic mapping. The university... (read more)

2012-02-13 02:05:33

New Mini AUV Unveiled

The first autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) capable of being deployed from a robotic surface vehicle was unveiled at the Marine Autonomous and Technology Annual Showcase this November, held at the UK's National Oceanography Centre (NOC). This design, led by Planet Ocean and co-developed by NOC, ASV Ltd. and the University of Southampton, is around three times smaller than current AUVs. At around 50cm long, their size allows them to be used in ways previously not considered. Microsubs are also able to frequently monitor infrastructure, such as pipelines for corrosion or potential leaks, in an extremely cost-effective manner. The ecoSUBμ and... (read more)

2016-11-29 01:12:52

Developing Next Generation AUV

Subsea 7 and SeeByte have joined forces to develop the next generation of Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) for the offshore oil and gas industry. The project will see the development of the first truly autonomous vehicle capable of both inspection and light intervention in an offshore environment. SeeByte Ltd, providing solutions for improved awareness and robot autonomy, and Subsea 7, subsea engineering, construction and technology companies, aim to provide the offshore oil and gas industry with a new concept of autonomous inspection and intervention vehicles. The vehicle, deployed from a host facility, will be capable of inspecting risers, pipelines,... (read more)

2008-02-27 10:03:47