Vehicles
Teledyne Marine manufactures a wide selection of unmanned underwater vehicles operating throughout the water column from the surface to the seafloor. The Teledyne Marine Vehicles group is comprised of Benthos, Gavia, Oceanscience, SeaBotix, and Webb Research, all of whom are industry and technology leaders.
AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER GLIDERS
The Slocum glider is a uniquely mobile network component capable of moving to specific locations and depths and occupying controlled spatial and temporal grids. Driven in a sawtooth vertical profile by variable buoyancy, the glider moves both horizontally and vertically.
The long-range and duration capabilities of Slocum gliders make them ideally suited for subsurface sampling at the regional scale. Carrying a wide variety of sensors, they can be programmed to patrol for weeks at a time, surfacing to transmit their data to shore.
AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES (AUVs)
The Gavia is an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV, or unmanned robot submarine) that is made up of “plug-and-play” AUV modules which can be brought together and configured in the field. When assembled with a set of survey-grade sonar modules, a Gavia AUV becomes a self-contained survey solution with a low logistics footprint that is capable of carrying out a wide range of missions for commercial, defence, and scientific applications. Gavia modules are available in 500 or 1000m versions and are fully interchangeable on any Gavia AUV in the field. Gavia AUVs typically operate from vessels of opportunity providing cost effective solutions compared to dedicated survey vessels, ROVs or large tow bodies. The modularity means that the Gavia AUV specification is flexible: all modules are designed around a base 20cm diameter system which includes a nose module, battery module, control module and propulsion module; the AUV length and weight in the field will depend on the set of sonar, navigation, additional battery and ancillary modules chosen for a particular mission. A Gavia AUV has the flexibility to be designated to each task as it arises; it does not have to be dedicated to only one task.
AUTONOMOUS & UNMANNED SURFACE VEHICLE
The Oceanscience Z-Boats are designed with the surveyor in mind. The hull shape, propulsion, radio communication, and sonar instrumentation combine to offer an easy to use and powerful option for the hydrographic surveyor or land surveyor wishing to complete inshore hydrographic work. The Z-Boat offers unmatched convenience for jobs where access to the survey area is poor, or conditions are unsafe.
REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES (ROVs)
Teledyne SeaBotix manufactures a range of Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) that are powerful, compact, open-frame observation and inspection class vehicles with extensive built-in flexibility.
SeaBotix ROVs have the advantage of being small and lightweight, yet powerful enough to navigate strong currents, carrying a multitude of sensors and payloads. This makes them ideally suited for tasks such as ship hull inspection, dam and tunnel inspection, and search and recovery operations, to name a few.
PROFILING FLOATS
APEX Autonomous Profiling Floats remain the most cost effective profiling drifters available. Teledyne Webb Research is committed to designing and manufacturing the most reliable profiling float on the market.
Key Features:
• Provides autonomous profiles from depths to 2000 m
• Configured with standard sensors for biogeochemical analysis
• Provided ready to deploy, with automated self-test software
• Telemetry options: Iridium with GPS and SAIL
TOWED SYSTEM
The Teledyne Towed Systems product line provides solutions for conducting a wide range of deep water applications. Building on Teledyne Benthos’ experience in solving complex undersea problems, our towed systems serve as a base platform to be configured to meet an operator’s specific needs.
Teledyne Benthos Towed Vehicles are an exceptional system for data collection, inspection and survey in the most challenging marine environments.
TETHERED HYDROLOGIC BOATS
Oceanscience tethered boats for the deployment of acoustic Doppler current profilers (ADCPs) from cableways, bridges, manned boats, or fixed structures are used by hydrographers and hydrologists across the world. The Riverboat is the undisputed platform of choice for ADCPs used in hydrologic monitoring, offering unmatched data quality and instrument stability. All Riverboats are designed to be nearly indestructible, ready for the challenges of environmental monitoring. Oceanscience Riverboats can be customized to deploy depth sounders and can be equipped with a range of radio communications and GPS positioning instruments.
ROV SOFTWARE
SmartFlight 2.0 powered by Greensea provides supervised autonomy for all SeaBotix vLBV systems and Teledyne SeaBotix vLBV simulator software for pilot training and competency assurance.
