Unmanned surface vehicle
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A USV demonstration at Hampton, Virginia; January 2009
USV used in oceanographic research, June 2011
Unmanned surface vehicles (USV) or autonomous surface vehicles (ASV) are vehicles that operate on the surface of the water 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 and naval applications.[4][5]
Military applications for USVs include powered seaborne targets. Operational USVs with offensive capability include the Israeli Protector USV.[6]
See also
- Fleet-class USV
- Piranha Unmanned Surface Vessel
- Protector USV
- Spartan Scout
- Unmanned water vehicle Piraya
- UAPS20 Unmanned AutoPilot System
- ACTUV
- Springer USV [7]
- U-RANGER* USV [8]
- Liquid Robotics
References
- ↑ Stevens Institute of Technology student USV
- ↑ "Wave glider research platform"
- ↑ Wired article
- ↑ "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
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