Bluefin
HAUV Makes its Mark
by Greg Trauthwein, Editor
Advances in subsea vehicle technology are rapidly evolving to keep pace with market demand ... ... rapidly evolving market demand driving advances or is in subsea vehicle technology? Both could be convincingly argued, and regardless of your position, technology and demand seem to be running in a deadheat. MTR had the opportunity to garner the insights of one of the market's technological leaders, David Kelly, President of Bluefin Robotics, who discussed the seven-year evolution of his company's HAUV the Hovering Autonomous Underwater Vehicle.
Like so many other stories of great technological innovation, the story of the Hovering Autonomous Underwater Vehicle or HAUV starts from academia, entails investment from the military, and includes a collaboration of private and public entities. Bluefin Robotics was born from the halls of academia, founded in May of 1997, formed from a core team of the Sea Grant Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with which it is still closely associated. Along the path to 2009,
30 MTR
Bluefin has become a diversified corporate entity, providing a broad scope of technologies, from concept to finished product, across the scientific, commercial and military markets globally. "The Hovering Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (HAUV) has been under development for seven years," said David Kelly, president and CEO, Bluefin Robotics, and its origination and development was driven by the Navy's need for a truly efficient, autonomous hull inspection system. In short, the Navy wanted to develop a sysMay 2009
You don't have Macromedia Flash Player installed.
This content requires the Macromedia Flash Player.
Get Flash
es.marinelink.mobi
www.marinelink.com