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An autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) is a robot which travels underwater without requiring input from an operator. AUVs constitute part of a larger group of undersea systems known as unmanned underwater vehicles, a classification that includes non-autonomous remotely operated underwater vehicles (ROVs) – controlled and powered from the surface by an operator/pilot via an umbilical or using remote control. In military applications AUVs are more often referred to simply as unmanned undersea vehicles (UUVs).
The first AUV was developed at the Applied Physics Laboratory at the University of Washington as early as 1957 by Stan Murphy, Bob Francois and later on, Terry Ewart. The "Special Purpose Underwater Research Vehicle", or SPURV, was used to study diffusion, acoustic transmission, and submarine wakes.
Other early AUVs were developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1970s. One of these is on display in the Hart Nautical Gallery in MIT. At the same time, AUVs were also developed in the Soviet Union (although this was not commonly known until much later).
This video features ALISTER AUV, one configuration of a whole range of AUV (Autonomous Underwater Vehicles); Alister 9, ALISTER 18 and ALISTER 27 are the latest achievements in the field of Unmanned Vehicles carrying out missions ranging from Hydrographic & Seafloor Survey, to Confined Area inspection, Rapid Environment Assessment, Mine Countermeasures, Homeland Security, High resolution Seismic Survey and Sediment Analysis. The principal difference between the vehicles of the AUV range can be summarized in different size, due to different payloads and/or different performance of payloads and/or different expected endurance during a mission.
The Indian Navy has been impressed by the DRDO's autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) that has undergone user demonstrations and has already elicited deep interest from the maritime forces following navigation trials at sea. Built for extended operations at a depth of upto 100m, for surveillance, intelligence gathering, mine detection, sea cordon operations etc, the AUV is understood to be priced at just over $8 million making it one of the most competitively priced systems in the market today. With the Electronics Corporation India Ltd (ECIL) as an engineering partner, DRDO's naval science and technology laboratory (NSTL) in Visakhapatnam is also trying to develop a variant of the AUV that can conduct more frontline activity like mine-laying. Source : http://www.indiandefensenews.in/ Thi...
The Vizag-based Naval Science and Technological Laboratory (NSTL) has successfully completed all trials of the Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV). Background Music TITLE: Summer Day ARTIST: NICOLAI HEIDLAS CC BY License 4.0
Autonomous underwater vehicle merupakan sebuah robot yang dioperasikan dibawah air dengan menggunakan sistem propulsi, dikontrol dan diarahkan oleh sebuah controller. AUV dirancang untuk misi surveillance di bawah air.
Autonomous Vehicles are systems of the future enabled by increasing computational power, advancing electronics and artificial intelligence. The distance between man and machine has never been closer. Enter the Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV). AUVs explore a domain close to our hearts but as dangerous and difficult as space: the infinite ocean. The applications for these systems range from ocean survey to mine counter-measure to wreckage search and rescue. My talk will share on the exciting journey I embarked on in AUV design and development from tupperware AUVs to the State-of-the-art AUVs. These AUVs have been deployed to compete against the best minds from around the world in completing a series of challenges much resembling some of the real world problems we face today. This talk...
Hydroid, a Kongsberg subsidiary, enlisted our services to create marketing animations for their whole family of 'REMUS' underwater vehicles. Our brief was to demonstrate the range of capabilities these vehicles offer in a format that was appealing and interesting for the viewer - whether they were familiar with the technology or not. Technical accuracy was a priority, to ensure the equipment was properly represented.
Our HUGIN range of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles offer the ultimate in autonomous remote subsea sensing. These free-swimming autonomous underwater vehicles are characterized by great manoeuvrability and high accuracy of stabilization. Hydrodynamic shape, accurate instruments and excellent battery capacity makes these AUV's ideal choices.
Read your free e-book: http://hotaudiobook.com/mebk/50/en/B00RYT4W8G/book This book, now at the third edition, addresses the main control aspects in underwater manipulation tasks. The mathematical model with significant impact on the control strategy is discussed. The problem of controlling a 6-degrees-of-freedoms autonomous underwater vehicle is deeply investigated and a survey of fault detection/tolerant strategies for unmanned underwater vehicles is provided. Inverse kinematics, dynamic and interaction control for underwater vehicle-manipulator systems are then discussed. The code used to generate most of the numerical simulations is made available and briefly discussed.
We present an approach for navigating in unknown environments while, simultaneously, gathering information for inspecting underwater structures using an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV). To accomplish this, we first use our pipeline for mapping and planning collision-free paths online, which endows an AUV with the capability to autonomously acquire optical data in close proximity. With that information, we then propose a reconstruction pipeline to create a photo-realistic textured 3D model of the inspected area. These 3D models are also of particular interest to other fields of study in marine sciences, since they can serve as base maps for environmental monitoring, thus allowing change detection of biological communities and their environment over time. Finally, we evaluate our approac...
J.D. Hernández, M. Moll, E. Vidal, M. Carreras and L.E. Kavraki, "Planning Feasible and Safe Paths Online for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles in Unknown Environments," IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), (Daejeon, Korea), (accepted), 2016.
In this simulated exercise, operators deploy two Bluefin SandSharks micro-AUVs from a larger, deep-water rated Bluefin-21 Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (UUV). The mission includes intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and neutralization of a potential threat. In August 2016, a General Dynamics Bluefin-21 launched multiple Bluefin SandShark™ micro-autonomous underwater vehicles (micro-AUV) as part of several capability demonstrations at the U.S. Navy's Annual Naval Technology Exercises. Learn more about the Bluefin SandShark at: http://bit.ly/SandShark-AUV
See Full report Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Industry @ http://goo.gl/N2WDv7. 2016 Market Research Report on Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Industry is a professional and depth research report on Autonomous Underwater Vehicle industry that would help to know the world's major regional market conditions of Autonomous Underwater Vehicle industry . The report introduced Autonomous Underwater Vehicle basic information including Autonomous Underwater Vehicle definition classification application and industry chain overview; Autonomous Underwater Vehicle market policy and plan, Autonomous Underwater Vehicle product specification, manufacturing process, cost structure etc.
Typhoon AUV, from the University of Florence, navigating during trials in Levanzo (Sicily, Italy, 2015)
MARTA AUV, from the University of Florence, navigating during trials at Lake Roffia (Tuscany, Italy, 2016)
Our group at the School of ECE, AUTH, built an Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV) with low-cost electronics. Contact info: http://users.auth.gr/antodimi/ Part of this work was supported by "Eugenides Foundation" , through the "Hydrobots" project.
The world's oceans cover more than 70% of the planet, yet they've been explored less extensively than the moon. As giant heat conveyors, they are critical driving forces affecting everything from snow-pack in the Cascades to climate change generally. But we know so little about them because making the required measurements is difficult and costly. Until recently. Join The STEAM Vent and Peter Brodsky, Principle Engineer at the University of Washington's Applied Physics Laboratory, and learn about a little-known robotic technology that has enabled a quiet revolution in ocean science. We will discuss Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs); and one class in particular called 'gliders'. Developed right here at the UW, these little underwater flyers have been invisibly traversing the world...
Seminar title: High-resolution benthic survey using Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Seminar type: CoralCoE seminar series Presented by: Stefan Williams Date: Thursday, 2nd of May 2013 Abstract: This talk will examine current developments in the area of benthic habitat mapping using Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs). An overview of Australia’s Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) program will be given and the role that the IMOS AUV Facility is playing in conducting repeated surveys at sites around Australia will be described. We will provide a brief overview of developments in the areas of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping, 3D terrain reconstruction and management of the large volumes of image data being collected by these systems. We will show how these methods are being use...
Brian Wilson, president and co-founder of Duro UAS, talks about AUVs and their applications in monitoring and repairing bridges.
ThinkTech host Jay Fidell in a discussion with Professor Song Choi and Researcher Aaron Hanai of the School of Engineering at UH Manoa on Hawaii as a leader in autonomous underwater vehicles ThinkTechHawaii.com streams live on the Internet from 12:00 noon to 5:00 pm every weekday afternoon, Hawaii Time, then streaming earlier shows through the night. Check us out any time for great content and great community. Our vision is to be a leader in shaping a more vital and thriving Hawaii as the foundation for future generations. Our mission is to be the leading digital media platform raising pubic awareness and promoting civic engagement in Hawaii.
John Leonard Professor, MIT/CSAIL Abstract This talk will discuss the critical role of mapping and localization in the development of self-driving vehicles. After a discussion of some of the recent amazing progress and open technical challenges in the development of self-driving vehicles, we will discuss the past, present and future of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) in robotics. We will review the history of SLAM research and will discuss some of the major challenges in SLAM, including choosing a map representation, developing algorithms for efficient state estimation, and solving for data association and loop closure. We will also present recent results on real-time dense mapping using RGB-D cameras and object-based mapping in dynamics environments. This is a joint work wit...
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