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OI 2016: The Final Round-Up

A Vibrant Oceanology 2016 Closes in London

Oceanology International is widely Reporter was out in force at the show, regarded as the ? nest international exhi- scouting the aisles for the latest news bition for the subsea industry, and 2016 and technologies. Here’s a sampling of did not disappoint. Marine Technology what we found.

Text & Photos by Eric Haun

Hydroid Debuts New Generation number of incremental improvements

REMUS 100 AUV over the years, it has never undergone

Kongsberg Maritime subsidiary Hy- an end-to-end technology revamp – un- droid, Inc. has been building the RE- til now. The overhauled New Genera-

MUS AUV since the company’s incep- tion REMUS 100 AUV combines the tion in 2001, delivering more than 400 reliability of the original REMUS 100 of these vehicles over that timeframe. AUV with several new features and ca-

Though the REMUS has received a pabilities, such as advanced core elec- tronics, a ? exible navigation suite with an exclusive conformal Doppler Veloc-

Hydroid president Duane Foth- ity Log (DVL) and an open architecture eringham stands next to the platform for advanced autonomy, ex- new and improved REMUS.

plained Hydroid president Duane Foth- eringham. “This is really a ground up refresh of the technology on the Remus 100 plat- form,” Fotheringham said.

The new version of the vehicle was created over a period of two years, and is designed based on feedback from the

AUV’s user community.

The new generation AUV is also smaller and lighter, but with the same diameter as existing models in order to maintain compatibility with older gen- eration modules, sensors and payloads.

New smaller and lighter core elec- tronics (CE) replace the previous RE-

MUS motherboard, as well as the CPU stack, emergency board and six serial cards. The new CE board uses an ARM +FPGA architecture that makes it both potent and versatile while consuming less than 5W of power—about 25 per- cent of the power required by the earlier

A Lego model of survey vessel Bibby Athena at the version.

Bibby stand.

The New Generation REMUS 100 in- cludes an exclusive conformal design, phased array transducer 300kHz DVL

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