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Iver3 “The defense community is ahead of the com- mercial market with regard to processing real-time high

Autonomous resolution data in-mission and making the vehicle respond

Underwater to it.”

Vehicles

Richard Mills, Kongsberg Maritime

Rapid Data Collection For

Coastal Applications

Mine Hunting with the

Royal Norwegian Navy

Side Scan

RNoN MCM-capability today exists with three Minesweepers and three

Bathy

Mine hunters. The main MCM-tool on the mine hunters is the HUGIN AUV,

Water Quality specially designed for MCM-operations. The minehunters are ? tted for HUGIN

AUVs, but in addition the Navy has containers designed for HUGIN operations;

Magnetometer which means the containers with HUGIN can be used from vessels of opportu- nity and shipped world-wide.

The concept of the MCM-operations is to send HUGIN into a danger area (keeping the vessel outside this area) searching for mines. This operation is fully autonomous, as this is done covertly. During the mission HUGIN will pro- cess all data and when recovered the operator will have access to data for pos- sible localized, classi? ed and identi? ed mine like objects. Positions of objects of interest will then be transferred to the one-shot system (Mine sniper), which then are sent out to the actual position to destroy the objects.

The RNoN is presently (as many other nations) looking at a future MCM- capability, and a trend we foresee is more autonomy. So one solution could be unmanned surface platforms launching and recovering AUVs.

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