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Remote Supervision

Jan 01, 2017

Richard Mills, of Kongsberg Maritime, discusses survey class AUVs and USVs. Workers ready Hugin AUV. Photo from Kongsberg Maritime. The autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) market…

Internet of autonomy

Jan 01, 2017

Unmanned autonomous systems and the internet of things are two phrases that are bandied about a lot. But, it’s not so often that they have come together and within the marine environment in a project involving offshore industry players – albeit those who also have a foot in the defense sector…

Autonomous and ready to work

Jan 01, 2017

Elaine Maslin profiles some of the projects moving forward that pledge to deliver autonomous underwater vehicles for life of field operations. Modus’ AUV launch and recovery system, designed and built by Osbit…

Fleet of AUVs deployed off UK

Sep 23, 2016

A two-week mission involving 10 marine robots has commenced off northwest Scotland. The third in a series of demonstrator missions, this latest phase sees the largest fleet of marine robotic vehicles simultaneously deployed in UK waters…

Eni's clean sea sets out of Mediterranean

Mar 14, 2016

Eni's Clean Sea subsea robotic technology is to be used for the first time for marine environmental monitoring and offshore asset inspection offshore the Mediterranean and West Africa. Clean Sea is a type of hybrid AUV focusing on environmental…

Heriot-Watt orders ASV C-Enduro

Jul 11, 2014

Heriot-Watt University's Edinburgh Campus has ordered an ASV C-Enduro. The C-Enduro Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) will be used for research in persistent and long-term autonomy with multiple remote and autonomous marine platforms. The…

Collaboration improves data recovery options

Jun 11, 2014

A collaboration between Sonardyne International Ltd., Shell, and Liquid Robotics led to the development of a Liquid Robotics Wave Glider autonomous marine vehicle configured for unmanned data retrieval from seafloor sensors. For the last three years…

ASV's unmanned C-Worker completes DW trials in GoM

Jun 03, 2014

ASV’s C-Worker 6 successfully carried out a seabed transponder calibration in 1300m deep waters. The trials took place in the Gulf of Mexico and were conducted in rough conditions with 2.5m waves. C-Worker is an oil field services…

Nereus ROV lost in Kermadec Trench off NZ

May 13, 2014

On Saturday, 10 May 2014, at 2 p.m. local time (10 p.m. Friday EDT), the hybrid remotely operated vehicle Nereus was confirmed lost at 9990m (6.2mi.) depth in the Kermadec Trench northeast of New Zealand. The unmanned vehicle was working…

Surface unmanned vehicle launched

Feb 18, 2014

Portsmouth, UK, based Autonomous Surface Vehicles (ASV) has launched an oilfield services unmanned surface vehicle, the C-Worker (pictured). The 20ft-long multi-use offshore unmanned surface vehicle was developed to conduct subsea positioning…

Eni tests AUV technology

Oct 31, 2013

Eni Norge is testing an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) designed to carry out subsea environmental monitoring along predetermined tracks. The project is part of investment by Eni Norge in research and development linked to new and improved techniques for monitoring the marine environment…

Bluefin Robotics acquires SeeByte

Oct 07, 2013

Bluefin Robotics, an autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) provider, owned by Battelle, has acquired SeeByte, Ltd., a company that provides autonomous platform software. SeeByte, headquartered in Edinburgh, Scotland, will operate as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bluefin…

Marine vehicle design wins award

Jul 31, 2013

Autonomous Surface Vehicles (ASV) won the second phase of the recent SBRI competition to develop a long endurance marine unmanned surface vehicle (LEMUSV). ASV will undertake the detailed production design, build, commissioning and sea trials of a fully operational…

DOE Inc announces two new autonomous/WiFi controlled USVs

May 15, 2013

DOE, Inc. (Deep Ocean Engineering) announced they have added two new vehicles to their product line, the dual hull H-1750 and the mono hull I-1650.  Both vehicles are controlled wirelessly by a dedicated WiFi link and have ranges up to 2km…

Subsea 7's autonomous inspection vehicle

May 02, 2013

In this video, Subsea 7 discusses its new autonomous inspection vehicle (AIV). The AIV is a fully autonomous, hovering vehicle designed to provide general video inspection information of infield oil and gas equipment. It is capable of unmanned autonomous inspection of pipelines…

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