March 19, 2004
Autonomous Speedboat
This is interesting. Especially since I was just talking to some people about building one to help with environmental monitoring. A company called MRVI is marketing an autonomous speedboat for patrol operations. Pretty cool looking, too.
Posted by elkaim at March 19, 2004 10:37 PMMRV International, an innovative marine technology company, is providing state-of-the-art software and hardware for robotic USVs (unmanned surface vessels) to man the US's harbours and waterways.
Operating as autonomous marine robotic platforms, the USVs use MRV's new-generation software for remote command and control, navigation, route planning, event and crisis management, onboard diagnostics and other functions. Linked with broadband wireless telemetry, the USVs can be operated from virtually anywhere in the world via the Internet.
To identify terrorism threats, the USVs can be equipped with radar, sonar, and video surveillance capabilities, as well as on-site, automated chemical, biological and radiological analysis. The all-weather, day-and-night robot boats also have application in piracy, narcotics interdiction, illegal immigration, chemical and radiological spill detection and many other areas.