Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs) are being developed to provide more effective mine detection and neutralization at lower risk than conventional methods. To be effective, UUVs must be small and highly maneuverable, which limits their range and mission duration. An Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) can be used to overcome this limitation by carrying several mini-UUVs into an area of operations, eliminating the requirement to expend power to travel to the operational area. Bluefin Robotics Corp. and Brooke Ocean Technology Ltd. conducted a study to develop, evaluate, and select innovative concepts for automated launch and recovery systems that can deploy multiple UUVs from USVs. A concept architecture was also created for an Asset Control System that coordinates autonomous operations among the support ship, USV, UUVs and L AND R system. This includes an Operator Tool Suite that serves as a top level operator interface.
Automated Launch and Recovery of Untethered, Mini Unmanned Underwater Vehicles from Unmanned Surface Vehicles
2004
85 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Computers, Control & Information Theory , Transportation , Antisubmarine Warfare , Underwater Ordnance , Recovery , Underwater vehicles , Unmanned , Maneuverability , Robotics , Adaptive control systems , Mine detection , Command and control systems , Launchers , Surface effect vehicles , Software tools , High level architecture , Application programming interface , Sbir(Small business innovation research) , Sbir reports , Sbir topic n04-127 phase 1
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