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PORT SECURITY
Autonomous vehicles are increasingly sophisticated defensive tools for ports wanting to protect against maritime threats - including attacks from other autonomous vehicles.
By Wendy Laursen n December 15 last year, the
Security Service of Ukraine re- ported that its underwater drone had struck a Russian submarine in Novorossiysk. The incident
O highlighted just how sophisti- cated potential threats have become. Harbor cam- eras were likely hacked, providing real-time visual evidence of the attack, with associated AI possibly identifying and guiding the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) to its target.
The value of AI is evidenced by the many technol- ogy partnerships that are forming between platform, software and sensor creators. Late last year, Ocean
Power Technologies (OPT) announced a partner- ship with Mythos AI to integrate AI-driven autonomy software across OPT’s ? eet of WAM-V autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs). These vehicles leverage real-time edge processing, multi-sensor fusion and adaptive learning for enhanced situational awareness, obstacle avoidance and multi-vehicle coordination.
Dr. Fritz Stahr, chief technology of? cer at Open
Ocean Robotics, says the integration of AI to ana- lyze data streams from autonomous vehicles is trans- forming the ? eld. Enhanced Horizon, Open Ocean
Robotics’ AI-driven analytics took kit, delivers real- time object detection, classi? cation, and tracking using optical and thermal cameras, giving operators immediate situational awareness above the surface.
For underwater intelligence, Underwater Listener is an AI-enabled acoustic monitoring system that de- tects and visualizes underwater sounds in real time.
It captures acoustic activity from sources such as ship engines, marine mammals, and underwater ma- chinery, streaming insights directly to XplorerView.
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