DARPA’s Anti-Submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel program, ACTUV, wants to develop an unmanned vessel that can track enemy diesel-electric…
Maritime
SeeByte to Provide United Kingdom MoD with a Maritime Autonomy Demonstration System
The United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence recently ordered a maritime autonomy demonstration system from SeeByte. The system will consist of…
ING Robotic Aviation Tests UAV Ice Monitoring in the Arctic
During this two-week mission on board Fednav’s ice-breaking cargo ship MV Arctic, the team tested ING’s Responder to collect imagery that could help ship captains navigate these dangerous, icy waters.
AMS Set to Pilot the Datamaran Later this Year
Designed to deliver precision data from the ocean through the deployment of sensing and communication devices, and now undergoing pilot tests.
NASA Could Be Sending A Submarine to Study Titan’s Methane Seas
NASA’s COMPASS Conceptual Spacecraft Design Team recently completed a design for an autonomous submarine that could be sent to Saturn’s largest moon to explore what’s below its largest northern sea.
Life-Size Robot Achieves Firefighting Milestone on Navy Ship
Firefighting robot SAFFiR, short for Shipboard Autonomous Firefighting Robot, has passed its first milestone on the USS Shadwell, a decommissioned…
Researchers Integrate Two Types of UAS
NOAA’s Puma unmanned aircraft and two Wave Gliders from Liquid Robotics are integrated.
University of Delaware’s Robotics Discovery Lab is Sending Robots to Study the Ocean
The lab officially opened last summer and is behind several research projects involving AUVs.
Research at Georgia Tech Research Institute Looks at the Benefits of Smaller Lidars
Smaller bathymetric lidars could enable UAVs to perform underwater scans rather than manned aircrafts, drastically cutting costs and improving efficiencies.
U.S. Navy Completes Tests on the GhostSwimmer
This is one shark you don’t have to worry about attacking. In fact, its main job is to keep divers…
Sensonor’s STIM300 IMU Selected for Seabed’s New IMU, SBD-IMU-S1
Instead of using the traditional Fiber Optic Gyros that all previous Seabed systems have been based on, Seabed has selected…
U.S. Navy Receives First Operational MQ-8C Fire Scout Unmanned Helicopter from Northrup Grumman
U.S. Navy ship commanders now have a new way to improve intelligence-gathering capabilities—by using Northrop Grumman’s MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned…
M.I.T./Olin College Take First Place in First Maritime RobotX Challenge
Unmanned boats from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Olin College recently took first place in the inaugural AUVSI Maritime…
KVH Industries Launches Two New Inertial Measurement Units, the 1725 IMU and the 1775 IMU
The 1725 IM and the 1775 IMU, released earlier this year, are designed to integrate into demanding stabilization, pointing and…
FAA Test Sites — Texas: Marine Applications
With test ranges that literally span sea and shore the Texas team intends to concentrate its unmanned research on applications…
Ocean Explorers Set to Launch
Three new underwater vehicles, each capable of both autonomous and remotely operated missions, will make it possible to explore the secluded recesses of one of Earth’s most dynamic regions—its oceans.
