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Friday, April 13, 2012

Large Displacement UUV Steaming Ahead

[Echo Ranger]The U.S. Navy’s Office of Naval Research plans to take robot submarines to a new level. Current Navy unmanned underwater systems (UUS) are small vehicles controlled by an operator nearby, for missions lasting a few hours.

The Large Displacement Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (LDUUV) will be large and highly autonomous, carrying out missions at long distances for months.

It will act as a mothership, deploying and operating static and mobile sensors for persistent surveillance in coastal waters.

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