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Vehicles

Innovative new platforms to conduct subsea work

The Hybrid Survey USV

By William Stoichevski

At the headwaters of initiatives advancing autonomous, urban ferries and other unmanned surface vehicles, or USVs, is a Norwegian company with international reach. Visiting Maritime Robotics again, we learn that huge advances in autonomous navigation and control are coupled a new practical up-link function in Maritime Robotics new USV for 2020. High on the excite-o-meter, the Mariner II is an upgrade to hybrid from the successful Mariner platform, a sealed, rib-like vessel that delivers larger radar and avoidance payloads.

Chief beneficiaries ought to be bathymetric and seismic surveyors, inland, nearshore and in pirate-infested offshore waters.

Rich data: bathymetric survey data collected by a Maritime

Robotics USV from a waterway north of Trondheim

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