The HAUV2 is two-man deployable. HAUV2 being deployed in the summer of 2008.
tem that made a tough, mundane, dangerous but important task more efficient and safe. Now in its "second-generation," Bluefin's HAUV is currently under evaluation by the Navy for procurement for its stated goal: an efficient fully autonomous hull inspection tool. While the HAUV is stamped with the Bluefin name, Kelly is quick to commend a long list of partners in the project, partners that include: · MIT (feature based navigation & control) · Florida Atlantic University (high speed acoustic communications) · the University of Michigan (video feature-based navigation, as well as mosaicing) · Seebyte (automated target recognition, control around complex areas and real-time mosaicing),
· Acoustic View (mosaicing under EOD HULS contract) · Sound Metrics Corp. (DIDSON Sonar) and · ScienceGL (3D rendering) To date, four vehicles have been built for the Office of Naval Research and the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Hull Unmanned Localization System (EOD HULS), and have performed well in eight demonstrations from San Diego to Italy "From a developmental view, we have gone from proof of concept into an engineering model which is ready to go into a production run," said Kelly. "The US Navy is fully committed to the program; ONR on the development side and the PMS-EOD office on the user side. We are currently in Phase 2 of the EOD HULS program."
Chart 1
32 MTR
May 2009
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