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Catalina itself. Bottke said that its UAV will have thrusters as a must, but they are still working on the design. I then pointed him toward a Small Water Area

Twin Hull (SWATH) design. This will allow for surface propulsion while vastly increasing the stability of the Catalina on the water surface. This will also have a direct impact on helping to solve the

Light Detection and Ranging (LiDar) per- formance issues should it be installed on the Catalina. Poor and intermittent Lidar performance is something that monohull

UAV engineers have been struggling with for quite some time now, due to the integrated laser rolling up and down with the rolling UAV instead of staying paral- lel to the water surface. Bottke took to the idea to heart with enthusiasm. Today, 19 patents of this unique design are pending with the U.S. Patent Offce. These are all very impressive accomplishments along with some exciting future goals, but the

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