HAUV provides precise, accurate and persistent positioning ideal for change detection applications. Top Left: A representative track of a hull survey. Top Right: Trackline data of an actual hull survey. Bottom: 3D profiling of a hull survey rendered by ScienceGL, Inc.
While the primary focus of the vehicle has been for a specific military purpose, Kelly said that there has been serious interest in the vehicle for a wide variety of military, port and harbor security, as well as commercial duties. "Based on the platform's original design objective, the HAUV is capable of rapidly and accurately surveying the hull of a ship removing the diver from mundane and/or dangerous situations," Kelly said. He noted that the HAUV is designed, and has proven time and again through testing and demonstration, to be able to survey
the hull both the straight, flat easy portions, as well as the complex areas around the shafts, propellers and rudders, helping to minimize the need for diver in laborious, mundane and occasionally dangerous situations. But while ship hull survey has been the driving force in the development of the HAUV, "many other applications have emerged as well." To illustrate its functionality, Kelly points to HAUV's performance at a recent demonstration, where a 200 meter long structure was survey in just 15 minutes.
The 29 x 6 meter hull of the King Triton was surveyed by HAUV1B in April 2008. HAUV collected enough data on to allow AcousticView to mosaic over 700 frames to render this image.
34 MTR
May 2009
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