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Products & Technologies

QINSy Kraken Wins Sonar Contract from ECA

Kraken Sonar won a contract valued at more than $325,000 by ECA Robotics to supply and help integrate its AquaPix Miniature Interferometric Synthetic Ap- erture Sonar and Embedded Real-Time SAS Signal Processor on ECA Robot- ics’ newest A18D autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV). Kraken describes its

AquaPix as a sonar system providing military grade technology that provides 3D seabed imaging, faster data processing and a lower cost. AquaPix is designed for operation on AUVs, manned and unmanned surface vessels and towed bod- ies. The modular system uses the latest electronics, transducer arrays and signal processing software optimized for the demanding size, weight, power and cost constraints of unmanned maritime vehicles. AquaPix generates bathymetry data

Software design company Quality (25cm along-track x 25cm across-track x 5cm height) co-registered and geo-

Positioning Services BV (QPS) has referenced to the same pixel grid co-ordinates as the imagery. Operators can upgraded its hydrographic data acqui- produce crisp seabed imagery and detailed 3D digital terrain maps of sea? oor sition, navigation and processing soft- topography that exceed IHO SP-44 survey standards. ware package QINSy (Quality Inte- www.krakensonar.com grated Navigation System). The latest version, 8.10.2015.06.29.1, includes a new feature called Hook-Up Opera- tions for Anchor Handling, for pre- laid anchors powered by Orca? ex of

Orcina.Traditional anchor handling, including showing the catenary, was already possible with QINSy. The an- chors are run from the rig or barge us- ing tug boats that deploy the anchors at the planned positions. During the

Kat? sh anchor handling procedure the cat-

OceanGate and Battelle combined undersea tech to explore the GOM’s Flower enary, powered by Orca? ex, is shown

Garden Banks. When OceanGate’s Cyclops 1 dove deep into the Flower Garden during the entire operation. With the

Banks National Marine Sanctuary, it did so with an extra set of all-seeing eyes. new Hook-Up procedure the anchors

Mounted to the ? ve-man submersible was the Battelle HorizonVue, a video cam- are already pre-laid on the seabed, but era that provides real-time, live video with a 360-degree view. Intended for use not yet connected to a rig or tug boat. by Work Class ROV operators, and the subsea oil and gas industries, the Hori-

The anchor has a wire with a (sub) zonVue camera provides enhanced situational awareness in areas where keeping surface buoy at the end. QPS said the track of multiple objects simultaneously is critical. advantage of using Orca? ex for the

The HorizonVue camera and software records all 360 degrees of the scene si- catenary calc is it supports complex multaneously. When the video is played back the user is able to use a digital anchor wires that consist of different pan and tilt window to explore the 360 image in an immersive environment to types of material, which all have their investigate what is missed by the array of cameras normally used.

own structural characteristics.

www.battelle.org www.qps.nl (Photo: Battelle)

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