THIS UNDERWATER DRONE WILL MAP OCEAN FLOORS American company bedrock has unveiled an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) that aims to accelerate the ocean mapping process, support the offshore wind industry, and generally broaden our limited knowledge of ocean depths. Together with the new fully electric submarine, bedrock is also launching an ocean-mapping cloud platform [...]
According to the defence expert, reports from December last year suggested that 14 would be employed in the Indian Ocean mission but only 12 were used. Sutton said that these gliders are unpowered with large wings to glide that can run for long periods of time, adding that they are not fast or agile, however, [...]
Boeing Orca XLUUV is an open-architecture reconfigurable unmanned submarine with navigation, autonomy, and situational awareness, and mission sensors. Undersea warfare experts at the Boeing Co. will continue supporting extra-large unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs), which will be expected to undertake long-endurance missions to deploy sensors or other UUVs. Officials of the U.S. Naval Sea Systems [...]
Technical.ly Pittsburgh Lawrenceville's fast-growing RE2 Robotics just landed a $9.5M Navy contract for its underwater autonomous bots Technical.ly
Thales Australia and Flinders University have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to study the development of an automation system for the launch and recovery process of the General Dynamics Mission Systems Bluefin 9 UUV, procured by the Royal Australian Navy under its Deployable Mine Counter Measures project. The current launch and recovery processes for AUVs requires [...]
The term LiDAR comes originally from the mixture of the words light and radar, although it also responds to acronyms such as light detection and ranging or laser imaging, detection, and ranging, or sometimes replaced by the term 3D laser scanning. Basically, we are talking about a method using terrestrial, aerial and mobile applications to [...]
