AQUA2

Cutting-Edge Autonomous Underwater Vehicle

AQUA2 Mk3

  • Single Person Deployable

  • Low Disturbance Biomimetic Swimming

  • Powerful Onboard NVIDIA GPU for Realtime Decision Making

  • Advanced Vision Processing

  • Efficient Propulsion for All-Day Operation

  • High Maneuverable

  • ROS2 Software Stack

  • Flexible Sensor Configuration

  • Optional Waterproof Tether System

Grounded Artificial Intelligence

Aqua2 uses unique AI to give the operators significant advantage over other AUVs and human-piloted non-intelligent ROVs.

Advanced Manouevring and Motor Controls. The robot can compensate for damage or the unexpected whilst conducting agile manoeuvres in challenging environments to keep on mission. This intelligence gives the Aqua2 a survivability and reliability edge over its nearest competitors.

Image Processing and Recognition. Input from synced stereo cameras is processed by the onboard NVIDIA GPU for object and anomaly detection. This analysis is used to assist in navigation, obstacle avoidance, and in achieving mission objectives. Trained human pilots not required.

Post-Mission Analysis. The effort and cost to analyze and summarise mission data is enormous and significant advantage can be gained when the Insight Engine is debriefing and reporting missions in a fraction of time and logistical burden.

Solving Real-World Challenges

Diver-Safe Human Robot Teaming

Aqua2 features IR’s latest technology for object recognition to both aid collision avoidance and become an asset for human divers.

With gesture recognition and mid-mission visual commands, Aqua2 has been proven to support dive missions as an autonomous support vehicle. It excels in solving navigation challenges underwater, leading divers to locations directly and minimising consumption of their air.

The vehicle can conduct any number of autonomous behaviours as its onboard intelligence understands the mission, the environment, and the gestures from the human diver. It can video document the dive, gather additional data, and tests have even shown it capable of towing a diver.

Lightweight & Portable

Aqua2 is single-person portable and deployable - a key design factor which supports the maritime commander or infrastructure supervisors need to quickly investigate and understand the conditions and realities on our coasts and dhangerous shallow waters.

It can be deployed by hand and will orientate itself and proceed with its mission after just 2 seconds in the water.

Aqua2 has a nominal endurance of 12 hours and can call and navigate home using pre-planned scenarios.

Aqua2 for Infrastructure Assessment

  • Significantly lowers cost and risk for underway, deployed or in-port inspection tasks​

  • Minimal training burden for operators

  • Diver-safe and ship safe – patented design can operate under hull without radhaz or tag-outs​

  • COs now have the ability to check under their ship in minutes – increase choice​

  • Long duration enables security inspection and sustained autonomous patrol/alert