Persistent Maritime Surveillance...2 1997 - 2000 •Winner Solar Boat race in Canberra •Inspires...
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Persistent Maritime Surveillance
Ocius Presentation
9 October 2019
AAUS
Agenda:
i) Background Bluebottle USV
ii) Recent trials ‘scenarios’
iii) ASW with Thales
iv) Summary
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1997 - 2000
•Winner Solar Boat race in Canberra•Inspires formation of Solar Sailor
2001 - 2013
•solar and sail and hybrid powered ferries in Australia, HK and China
•Provide design consultancy for sustainable shipping projects
•Numerous awards and honours
2014 - present
•“Nemo” prototype USV •$3M CTD to develop a ASWUSV•$1.6M DIH to develop “Intelligent C2 network” •Partnerships with UNSW, Steber, Thales•Australian SME Innovation Award Pac 2017•AW 18 success
OCIUS Technology Ltd
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1) ADF:
2) Home Affairs
3) Fisheries protection
4) Oil + Gas: monitoring, asset protection
5) Science: BOM, GA, CSIRO
6) Oceanographic research
Applications
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1) Fossil Fuel powered
2) Renewable energy powered
Todays USVs?
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R&D - 7 patent families & 2 registered designs in USA
rudder flipper winch solarsail
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Radar
VMS/ADSB
EW
MBES
pair with UUVs
Weather
Hurricane prediction & Tsunami sensors
Platform carrying Payloads
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WINCH-lowering sensors to significant and varying depths
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ASSET
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Introduction
▌ Thales Australia partnered with Ocius Technology
to demonstrate a proof of concept autonomous
Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) surveillance system
▌ Acoustic linear towed array integrated onto an
Unmanned Surface Vessel (USV) platform
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Purpose
▌ Demonstrate a persistent autonomous ASW surveillance system with sonar equipment
integrated onto a USV platform
▌ Reduce the number of personnel involved in the mission
▌ Elimination of repetitive, dirty and dangerous work
▌ Present a force multiplying autonomous system to Defence to assist large platforms e.g. surface ships and submarines
▌ Innovate to face the challenges of the 21st century
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Project Experience
▌ Conducted design, prototyping, testing and trialling of sonar
equipment at sea
▌ Able to progress from concept to demonstration in a short time
frame through R&D
▌ Exposed to an exciting area of development breaking new ground
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Outcomes – To Date
▌ Demonstration team of Autonomous Surface Vessels (ASV’s) conducting sonar operations
▌ Successful marine detection and tracking
▌ Proof of concept integrated system
Array sonar and AIS
tracking in agreement
Next Steps
▌ Increased sonar detection ranges
▌ Fully autonomous operations
▌ Scalable autonomous solution
▌ Ruggedisation of system for safe and secure long
term missions
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Target 1) Detection
range individual
BB
2) Detection between BB
overlapping detection ranges
3) Picket fence 5
BBs coverage
Class 1 Fishing boat 14 km 28 km 140 km
Case 2 Fast boat 8 km 16 km 80 km
Case 3 Ship 20 km 40 km 200 km
Picket Fence
Range Spacing
Capability Brick - modelling
Target 1) Detection range
individual BB
2) Detection between BB
overlapping detection ranges
3) Picket fence 5
BBs coverage
Class 1 Fishing boat 14 km 28 km 140 km
Case 2 Fast boat 8 km 16 km 80 km
Case 3 Ship 20 km 40 km 200 km
Target 1) Detection range
individual BB
2) Detection between BB
overlapping detection ranges
3) Picket fence 5
BBs coverage
Class 1 Fishing boat 14 km 28 km 140 km
Case 2 Fast boat 8 km 16 km 80 km
Case 3 Ship 20 km 40 km 200 km
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large areas long distances from mainland
monitoring below + above sea level
No crew
Disruptively low cost
Sovereign capability
Continuously
WHY?
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Thank you.
Questions and Answers.