Autonomous surface vehicle for persistent marine environment monitoring system

Scope: Shipbuilding, Marine Technologies and Environmental Technologies
Duration: June 2012 – May 2015

The project involves the development of a modular and expandable system of autonomous surface units capable of managing (launching and recovering) autonomous vehicles of various types capable of acquiring environmental data for civil and military applications, in particular:

• search for and management of war ordnance and/or drums of dangerous substances
• high-resolution bathymetric profiles
• integration of anti-intrusion and coastal surveillance systems.

The vehicles will be designed and developed on a SWATH hull, will have small dimensions, great autonomy, operability, efficiency and will constitute the fleet necessary to increase the volume of sea that can be inspected and avoid problems related to spatial and temporal under-sampling.

Partner:  INTERMARINE, CNR, SELMAR, SITEP, INGV