Unmanned surface vehicle
Unmanned surface vehicles (USV) or autonomous surface vehicles (ASV) are vehicles that operate on the surface of the water (watercraft) without a crew.
USVs are valuable in oceanography, as they are more capable than moored or drifting weather buoys, but far cheaper than the equivalent weather ships and research vessels,[1] and more flexible than commercial-ship contributions. Wave gliders, in particular, harness wave energy for primary propulsion[2] and, with solar cells to power their electronics, have months of marine persistence[3] for both academic [4][5] and naval applications. [6][7]
Military applications for USVs include powered seaborne targets. Operational USVs with offensive capability include the Israeli Protector USV.[8]
See also
- Fleet-class USV
- Piranha Unmanned Surface Vessel
- Protector USV
- Spartan Scout
- Unmanned water vehicle Piraya
- UAPS20 Unmanned AutoPilot System
- ACTUV
- Springer USV [9]
- U-RANGER* USV [10]
- Liquid Robotics
- Silver Marlin
- USV Bonefish [11] [12] [13] [14] [15]
References
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- ↑ Stevens Institute of Technology student USV
- ↑ "Wave glider research platform"
- ↑ Wired article
- ↑ "Autonomous Navigation and Obstacle Avoidance of Unmanned Vessels in Simulated Rough Sea States - Villanova University"
- ↑ "An experimental setup for autonomous operation of surface vessels in rough seas"
- ↑ "Naval Postgraduate School Program"
- ↑ "Information Dissemination"
- ↑ http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1254673318745&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull Jerusalem Post, 4 Oct 2009
- ↑ http://www.tech.plymouth.ac.uk/sme/springerusv/
- ↑ http://www.calzoni.com/products-services/special-naval-applications_3/unmanned-surface-vehicles_14
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhQcrHHTa5E
- ↑ http://saab.com/region/saab-australia/naval/bonefish/
- ↑ http://indaily.com.au/flinders-news/2015/08/07/steering-a-course-for-unmanned-vessels/
- ↑ http://www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStore.ashx?id=09661303-1f3b-49c1-95f1-7a0efd282d10&subId=303542
- ↑ http://www.shephardmedia.com/news/uv-online/saab-bonefish-proceeds-apace/
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