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

AUV Programme Manager

Phoenix International Holdings, Inc. (USA) has appointed Christopher S. Moore as Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Manager. He will be responsible for planning and managing all AUV activities associated with Phoenix’s recent acquisition of a 21 inch diameter Bluefin Robotics AUV. His responsibilities will include identifying potential markets, developing market penetration strategies, and executing those strategies. Mr. Moore spent more than 25 years working for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) where he retired at the rank of Captain in the NOAA Corps. While at NOAA, Mr. Moore held operational and programmatic positions that included multiple Commands at Sea; Director,... (read more)

2012-11-20 11:42:54

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

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

New Solar AUV Trials

Falmouth Scientific, Inc has performed Seaweb trials of its Solar Powered AUV (SAUV) and reports excellent results. The Solar AUV successfully performed its mission and demonstrated its ability to be bi-directionally controlled and perform real-time data acquisition of underwater sensors using Freewave and Iridium communications. Falmouth Scientific developed and manufactured the Solar AUV under sub-contract from the Autonomous Undersea Systems Institute (AUSI) for the Office of Naval Research (ONR). The solar-powered vehicle has unlimited endurance and is capable of swimming at speeds of up to 3 knots and diving to 500 metre depths. The SAUV includes an FSI Conductivity, Temperature,... (read more)

2003-11-11 12:00:00

Tritech Assists Autosub AUV

Researchers from the National Oceanographic Centre, Southampton (NOCS), recently trialled Autosub6000, a deep rated Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV), to explore ocean regions approaching 6000m water depth. Autosub6000 was able to manoeuvre and avoid obstacles using Tritech’s SeaKing scanning sonar. Due to the extreme conditions, a 6000m depth rated titanium SeaKing sonar was selected. The SeaKing sonar was mounted to scan vertically to allow the AUV to fly over detected obstacles. As the obstacle avoidance sonar of choice for many of the ROV/ AUV fleets in the world, the clear imaging and range performance features of the SeaKing sonar allowed... (read more)

2009-12-28 12:54:56

OceanServer Completes AUV Delivery

OceanServer Technology (OTI) recently delivered two lightweight multibeam sonar-equipped AUVs to the Navy Special Warfare (NSW) Command. These AUVs were competitively procured and operationally tested prior to delivery to the NSW Command at the Stennis Space Center in September 2010. Additionally the Office of Naval Research (ONR) has contracted with OTI for a third vehicle to be delivered in December 2011. This is the fifth such award to OceanServer Technology over the past three years and represents the most sophisticated vehicle developed by OTI to date.The man-portable lightweight Iver is equipped with side-scan sonar (SSS), doppler velocity log (DVL), acoustic... (read more)

2010-11-17 11:37:25

‘Killer’ AUV Sonar System

In January 2001, C&C Technologies (C&C), a company based in Lafayette (Louisiana, USA), introduced the first commercially successful autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) to the offshore industry. The AUV’s survey sensor suite, which included an EdgeTech side-scan sonar and sub-bottom profiler, performed well in the Gulf of Mexico and Brazilian offshore environments. However, West Africa proved more challenging – particularly for the sub-bottom profiler. C&C soon began searching for alternative technologies to provide better sub-bottom profiler penetration and higher resolution side-scan sonar imaging.Jim Chance, C&C Technologies (USA) Art Kleiner, EdgeTech (USA)<P> Narrator: Fast forward to the early autumn of 2004… C&C... (read more)

2008-04-02 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