An unmanned undersea vehicle system includes a remote controlled, unmanned undersea vehicle and a mother vehicle interconnected by a communication link. The unmanned undersea vehicle includes a weapon compartment and a control means. Within the weapon com...
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In brief summary, the invention provides an unmanned undersea vehicle system comprising a mother vehicle and a daughter unmanned undersea vehicle. The unmanned undersea vehicle has an erectable observation mast for obtaining environmental information. A c...
An unmanned undersea vehicle system includes an axisymmetrical cylindrically shaped self propelled undersea deployment vehicle of predetermined diameter having an amidships undersea weapon bay. The amidships undersea weapon bay includes a plurality of wea...
... unmanned undersea vehicle (UUV) systems existing ... a notional UUV system design ... Descriptors : *UNDERWATER VEHICLES, NAVY, COMPUTER ...
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... achieve enhanced levels of access and awareness ... National Security and the Convention on the ... Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (UUV) Master Plan. ...
DSV TURTLE is taken aboard Navy support ship Laney Chouest. Image ID: nur07540, Voyage ... Credit: OAR/National Undersea Research Program (NURP) Category: Undersea Technologies ...
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This paper discusses the current development challenges and unmanned vehicle technology demonstrations for two on-going unmanned vehicle initiatives for expanding the battlespace for USW: MANTA unmanned undersea vehicles (UUV's) and SPARTAN unmanned surfa...
Which military missions for unmanned undersea vehicles (UUVs) appear most promising to pursue in terms of military need, risk, alternatives, and cost. This book presents the results of a limited study performed by the RAND Corporation to address this ques...
In an era when mines are inexpensive and easily accessible, present mine detection and area reconnaissance capabilities are insufficient to enable unencumbered maneuver in the littoral regions. Unmanned undersea vehicles (UUVs) possess potential to provid...
... called a Self-contained Environment and Autonomous Housing for Ocean Reconnaissance and Surveillance Equipment (SEAHORSE), can propel ...
Instruments accommodated on moving underwater platform. Towable underwater platform 3.2 meters long,
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... Abstract : The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific (SSC Pacific) has some 40 years in unmanned undersea vehicles 40 years ...
The patent application relates to a remote interconnection of a first undersea vehicle tethered to a second undersea vehicle which is assured by mating assemblies carried on both vehicles. The tethering cable extends through a prod assembly carried on the...
... Corporate Author : DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY WASHINGTON DC. Personal Author(s) : Hillenbrand, Christopher F. ; Gomez, Donald T. ...
... Creative thought about and planning for the future of UUVs ... UUV Master Plan ... Freedom) and larger specialty MCM UUVs are planned for delivery to ...
... were identified and prioritized: 1. Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance 2. Mine Countermeasures 3. Anti-Submarine Warfare 4 ...
to describe these systems. The most com- monly used are: autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) or unmanned undersea ve- hicle (UUV) for submarines; autonomous ...
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conference, Advanced Unmanned Underwater. Systems and Instrumentation in 1979 ..... high performance computing, neural networks autonomous roving vehicles ...
... from MBARI and 2 Odysseys from MIT), a ... needed, and completing and reviewing the collection ... Unmanned Undersea Systems Review, Orlando, FL ...
Aug 6, 2010 ... Naval applications include: a water breathing, high speed rocket propelled torpedo: a low speed , long range, unmanned undersea vehicles; ...
... AMP: Adaptive Mission Planner operation using a Windows laptop computer. The system has ... & Rocky Unlimited laptop computer- used to program ...
... NMTRODUCTION helment-mounted, l-ead-coupled television (HCTV) system on an undersea vehicle (Remote Unmanned Work System ...
... term Mine Reconnaissance System (LMRS) vehicles, six Remote Environmental Monitoring Units (REMUS) vehicles, and a notional Manta vehicle. ...
... Heidt, Brian ; Malecki, Sarah. Report Date : 06 JUN 2011. Pagination or Media Count : 229. Abstract : Submarines offer a ...
The Space and Naval Warfare (SPAWAR) Systems Center Pacific (SSC Pacific) has a long and extensive history in unmanned systems research and development, starting with undersea applications in the 1960s and expanding into ground and air systems in the 1980...
Sep 16, 2010... aboard unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). This analyzer will be the first sensor capable of meeting the stringent speed, weight, power, ...
The Experimental Autonomous Vehicle - West (EAVE-West) submersible testbed has been configured for demonstrating a distributable software architecture for Autonomous Undersea Vehicle (AUV) plan execution. Instead of using a machine planner aboard the AUV,...
A tailcone assembly for an undersea vehicle includes a first tailcone portion having a cavity and a second tailcone portion positionable in and axially extensible from the cavity. An extensible drive shaft is provided for joining the vehicle's engine...
... 8 Dennis Bushnell, Future Strategic Issues/Future Warfare [Circa 2025] (NASA Langley Research Center, July 2001), http://www.dtic.mil/ndia ...
During the Cold War the United States developed the Trident class ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) to replace the aging fleet of forty-one Poseidon ballistic missile submarines. Each of the eighteen Trident class submarines built to carry the mantle of ...
A power source for an unmanned undersea vehicle with increased energy density is described that employs a self-contained fuel system to address carbon dioxide evolution. A solid oxide fuel cell serves as the power source in the self- contained fuel system...
Photovoltaic solar cells can serve as a reliable source of electric power for electronic instrumentation in temporarily or permanently submerged marine systems in the form of bottom installations, buoys, or remotely controlled unmanned vehicles. The power...
As the Navy continues its development of unmanned underwater vehicles, the need for total autonomous missions grows. Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV) allow for advances in mine warfare, harbor reconnaissance, undersea warfare and more. Information can...
Unmanned undersea vehicle (UUV) technology received major support within the military arena during its early years of development. The support then declined just as commercial interest picked up. Today, larger UUVs are going commercial in support of offsh...
The objectives of the Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (UUV) program was to provide High Performance Scaleable Computing (HPSC) technology developed at Lockheed Martin in a scaleable 24 GFLOP HPSC processor for 21 inch UUV applications. The demonstration platfor...
This thesis presents a new approach for a Navy unmanned undersea vehicle (UUV) to search for and detect an evading contact. This approach uses a contact position distribution from a generic particle filter to estimate the state of a single moving contact ...
This patent application discloses a bottom-activated retractable control device that includes a fin member having a front edge, a trailing edge opposite to the front edge, a bottom edge between the front edge and the trailing edge, and an arm portion exte...
... lithium-ion superiority (over nickel metal hydride (Ni-MH ... trim issues, and provide a more balanced weight ... issues is solid ballast (ie, dense metals) in ...
The thermophotovoltaic (TPV) generation of electrical power promises efficiencies that are exploitable for military and commercial applications. TPV offers a combination of unique characteristics as a power source for military Unmanned Undersea Vehicles. In civilian applications TPV technology offers the potential for lightweight, rugged, and reliable ...
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Sep 3, 2010... low-power gas analyzer for eddy flux covariance measurements of ... and water vapor (H2O) aboard unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). ...
Jul 11, 2008 ... The Autonomous Modular Scanner carried aboard NASA's Ikhana unmanned aircraft captured this image of the Gap Fire in Santa Barbara ...
of automation bring benefits but also can increase dangers.Automated or auto- nomous systems can sometimes fail in the passenger seat. Similarly with unmanned aerial vehicles, early assump- tions were that autonomy would of automation while preserv- ing human control. Unmanned aircraft, robotic undersea manipulators, and plane
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The use of sensors for undersea warfare (USW) missions involves a wide spectrum of approaches. Among the many related research and development thrusts is a healthy focus on computer automation and flexible sensor positioning by low cost semi-autonomous platforms. Automation is being applied to organic sensors on large capital ships as well as distributed sensors detached from ...
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Biological systems in ocean environment provide all the desired features required for design of unmanned undersea vehicles. We noticed the uniqueness and simplicity in the design of rowing medusa and have successfully demonstrated working prototypes of Aurelia Aurita. In this study, we demonstrate the effect of bell joints in reducing the contraction force ...
During the past two decades, the U.S. Navy has been a leader in the field of developing unmanned undersea vehicles and work systems. This technology base, developed under such programs as CURV III (Cable-Controlled Underwater Recovery Vehicle), RUWS (Remote Unmanned Work System) and WSP (Work Systems Package), has been transferred to ...
In an effort to cut the cost of undersea surveys, platform inspections and repairs, Jered, Inc. has become the first US-based firm to specialize in unmanned vehicles for the offshore industry. Jered, Inc., of Houston, is offering a fleet of Recon J vehicles which, along with all support equipment, can be flown to any site worldwide. Having begun operations ...
... s Undersea Research Center, the Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory, explores and studies the waters around the Main ... ...
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Dec 1, 2009 ... Previous NASA research flights, such as aboard a modified U-2 spy plane called ER-2, are much more limited in distance and duration, ...
...person shall instruct the vessel's officers, or the vessel's operator if the vessel is unmanned, that the vessel's register... (g) In cases where derricks, spouts, suckers, or cranes are mounted permanently aboard barges which remain in...
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The activities of the Eastport International Co., which specializes in the design and operation of undersea unmanned vehicles for deep-sea, 610 m or deeper, applications, are discussed. Currently these activities involve cable laying and inspection for telecommunications systems and defense-related search and recovery missions. (LCL)
In many undersea conditions, optical sensors and sonar can be used to discriminate against sea mines. However, there are many conditions where these sensors are insufficient. For example, when a mine is fully buried these sensors are of little help. Under...
Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, San Diego (SSC San Diego) has developed an unmanned vehicle and sensor operator control interface capable of simultaneously controlling and monitoring multiple sets of heterogeneous systems. The modularity, scalability and flexible user interface of the Multi-robot Operator Control Unit (MOCU) accommodates a wide range of vehicles and ...
Previously, we reported an undersea unmanned vehicle (UUV) termed as JetSum, inspired by the locomotion of medusa jellyfish, [12]. The propulsion of JetSum was based on shape memory alloy (SMA) wires replicating the contraction-relaxation cycle of natural jellyfish locomotion. In this paper, we report modified design of JetSum that addresses problems ...
The robotics division of the San Diego Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center is very active in research and development. Its home page has a good deal of information about the many projects currently underway. There are several categories of robotic systems to browse, including autonomous land robots; unmanned ground, air, and undersea vehicles; and ...
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A REMUS (Remote Environmental Measuring UnitS) unmanned undersea vehicle (UUV) is being used for chemical plume mapping as part of the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Chemical Sensing in the Marine Environment (CSME) program. Bathymetric, current, temperature and fluorometric data are collected while the vehicle performs a ladder type search across and ...
Autonomous unmanned systems require provision for fault detection and recovery. Multiply-redundant schemes typically used in aerospace applications are prohibitively expensive and inappropriate solution for unmanned systems where low cost and small size are critical. Aurora Flight Sciences is developing alternative low-cost, fault-tolerant control (FTC) ...
... Title : Recommended Architecture for a Knowledge Management System for the Undersea Launchers Division at the Naval Undersea Warfare ...
... Accession Number : AD0768730. Title : California Undersea Aqueduct Reconnaissance: the Oceanography (CUARO). ...
A surge of interest in unmanned systems has exposed many new and challenging research problems across many fields of engineering and mathematics. These systems have the potential of transforming our society by replacing dangerous and dirty jobs with networks of moving machines. This vision is fundamentally separate from the modern view of robotics in that sophisticated ...
On December 14, 1983, the U.S.S.R. launched Cosmos 1514, an unmanned spacecraft carrying biological and radiation physics experiments from nine countries, including five from the United States. This was the fourth flight with U.S. experiments aboard one o...
From the site: "The West Coast and Polar Regions Undersea Research Center is a regional center in NOAA's Undersea Research Program (NURP). It is located ... ...
... is operated by the NOAA Undersea Research Program's (NURP) Undersea Research Center at the University of ... ...
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The paper presents a concept of Statistical Mechanics for observation-based adaptation in autonomous systems, which is typically exhibited by simple biological systems. Time-critical operations of autonomous systems (e.g., unmanned undersea vehicles (UUVs)), require in situ adaptation in the original plan of action and rapid response to evolving contextual ...
Off the shore of the Florida Keys sits the Aquarius, the world's only undersea research station. The station is administered by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and their research and education programs are quite impressive. On their website, visitors should check out the "About Aquarius" area to learn about the daily operations of the laboratory and ...
NOAA's Undersea Research Center for the NOAA's Undersea Research Center for the North Atlantic and Great Lakes region (NAGL) explores and studies the waters ... ...
This article describes the design and operation of a remotely operated underwater vehicle called RUM III. The vehicle is capable of working to depths of 20,000 feet and is designed to do more work at greater depths than any other unmanned research vehicle. RUM III is about the size of a compact car and its design provides deep ocean research capabilities now only available ...
In underwater tracking, such as with an unmanned undersea vehicle (UUV) or torpedo it is advantageous to track a target covertly. The Maximum Likelihood-Probabilistic Data Association (ML-PDA) tracking algorithm, which has been demonstrated to establish and maintain track in low SNR/high clutter environments, is used to develop track information in a ...
The Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) has funded Quantum Group, Inc. in an 18 month project to demonstrate an efficient 10 kW thermophotovoltaic (TPV) power generator. The goal is to demonstrate a fuel-flexible, efficient, compact, and quiet power system. The project will also investigate applications of TPV to unmanned undersea vehicles. TPV offers ...
... Accession Number : ADA086161. Title : Undersea Pipelines and Cables in Polar Water,. Corporate Author : COLD REGIONS ...
... Title : Pressure Resistant Anechoic Coating for Undersea Platforms. ... Descriptors : *STIFFNESS, *COATINGS, *SYNTACTIC FOAMS, COMPOSITE ...
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... A critical component in regional scale undersea ... The development of a reliable undersea MVC has ... causing delays and overruns in several projects. ...
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... Accession Number : AD0265476. Title : AIR-TO-UNDERSEA COMMUNICATION WITH ELECTRIC DIPOLES. Corporate ...
