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Sea Machines USV demonstrating Collaborative Following with Mother Vessel and Planned Survey Tracking by unmanned vessel.

boats to tackle mine counter-measure tions of a vessel relative to a local base ‘The challenge is that you never know scenarios, this system provides an ex- station or mother ship. where the spill is going to occur. Typi-

The Author tremely manoeuvrable multi-role ves- The ACS is designed to perform repet- cally what happens is that boats of con- sel.’ itive and quanti? able marine tasks more venience and crews of convenience are

John Haynes is an Associate Fellow of

In 2015 Atlas Elektronik UK were reliably when compared to direct hu- used, which is not necessarily the most the Nautical Institute, a Yachtmaster awarded a contract by the UK Ministry man control. Michael Gordon Johnson, ef? cient outcome. Working surrounded

Ocean and Advanced Powerboat Instruc- of Defence to supply an autonomous Sea Machines CEO, likens their new by crude oil is absolutely miserable, it tor. Subject matter expertise includes minesweeping capability to the Royal control system to the advances made by is also hazardous and can cause health high speed craft consultancy, product

Navy. The ARCIMS mission system, Dynamic Positioning (DP), ‘A skilled problems.’ development and specialist training.

He is Operations Director of Shock Miti- based on a specially designed 11 metre master can keep a vessel in position, Creating vessels and systems that can gation www.shockmitigation.com and (36 feet) vessel, can be operated from but it is much easier for a computer to perform dull, dirty and dangerous tasks founder of the RIB & High Speed Craft shore with the minimum of support or do it. Sea Machines system is a further has been a driver for many of the ves-

Directory that brings together specialist launched and recovered from an RN advancement beyond DP. The next step sels that we have seen introduced to date. boats and equipment for the sub IMO /

Hunt Class mine countermeasure ves- is to have unmanned vessels working With autonomous systems highlighted as sub 24 metre professional sector world- sel. These USVs will create underwater beyond the line of sight using satellite one of the most signi? cant technologies wide www.ribandhsc.com in? uences to detonate mines in a con- communications.’ for the future, this current crop of small trolled manner. The system will include Regarding utilising unmanned vessels unmanned vessels are only the tip of the autonomous ‘Sense & Avoid’ capability for oil spill operations Johnson added, iceberg for the maritime sector.

to enable safe operations at sea. The ben- e? ts of these modern unmanned sweep- ing systems are that they can safely clear sea lanes from mines therefore removing

We take pride in the relations the ‘man from the mine? eld.’ we build with our customers, and we take pride in the products we deliver. This gives

Dull, Dirty and Dangerous Tasks for us the con?dence to state that

Workboats we are always to be trusted.

US based company Sea Machines are

ALWAYS TO BE TRUSTED www.jetsgroup.com developing unmanned work boats for a number of applications in the maritime and offshore industries. Sea Machines

Autonomous Control Systems (ACS) provide algorithmic supervised autono- mous control to enable unmanned opera-

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