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OceanServer Technology  builds the first commercially developed, low cost Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV), Iver2, ideal for coastal applications such as hydrographic surveys and environmental monitoring. This next generation vehicle is single man-portable and features simple point and click mission planning.
  • State of the Art Open System
  • Reliable, Efficient, Simple to Operate
  • Launch and Operate from Shore, 40-50 Lb Displacement
  • Low Cost, Configurations Starting at Less than $50K USD

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Mission Planning Software
  • Uses Standard geo referenced charts for mission planning, NOAA, USGS, Sat Image.
  • Mission plan the vehicle(s) by click and drag, drawing a mission with the mouse or using visual tools like the lawnmower.
  • Planning for multiple vehicle missions on the same map space.
  • You can modify vehicle set points for each leg to a waypoint, speed, depth, special depth such as undulate or spiral dive for data collection.
  • You can click and drag any waypoints to edit a mission.
  • Program output is an ASCII mission file that can get copied to the Iver2 AUV using the WiFi connection and start a mission.
  • The time to plan a mission, copy to vehicle and start a mission can be under 1 minute in typical case.
Example Mission Planning
  • Plan three missions to be executed on different vehicles.
  • Mission is launch from shore, drive to location and do a lawnmower sweep with side scan sonar on.
  • Return to beach, lower speed and drive up on the beach for recovery.
  • Create three missions that can reduce the execution time from 6 hours to 2 hours by using 3 vehicles (teaming).
Vehicle Overlaid Mission
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Mission Planning Example 2  
  • Plan a short mission on a NOAA chart.
  • Overlay the mission on three other geo referenced data sources, including a satellite to confirm the vehicle will be in the small channel under the Dorchester Back Bay Draw Bridge.

 

NOAA RASTER CHART
NOAA ENC CHART
SATELLITE IMAGE
USGS CHART

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