AQUA2

cutting-edge autonomous underwater vehicle

Aqua2 is the flagship state-of-the-art autonomous underwater vehicle from Independent Robotics. It fuses advanced hardware, open-source operating system, and grounded AI with modular sensor packages to excel at an increasing series of complex underwater tasks

Solving real-world challenges

Grounded Artificial Intelligence

Aqua2 uses unique AI in 3 separate ways to give the operators significant advantage over other AUVs or 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.

Computer Image processing and recognition. Stereo front cameras can perceive depth, identify objects (and human diver gestures) and uses that intelligence to navigate, avoid obstacles, and achieve mission objectives. Trained human pilots not required.

Post-Mission Analysis. Up to 12 hour missions normally means a great deal of video-watching for the human team once the mission is complete. Even with fast-forwarding, the effort to analyze and summarise mission data enormous and significant advantage can be gained when the Insight Engine is debriefing and reporting missions in a fraction of time and logistical burden - elevating human analysts to supervisors.

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 & highly 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.

Resiliant and survivable

Aqua2 is highly engineered for resiliance in the harsh and dynamic environment of underwater. It’s onboard intelligent motor controls can tolerate damage to 2 seperate fins and/or servo motors and be able to continue mission. It’s fail-safe transponder beacon and high-factor pressure testing means the Mk3, with now years of harsh underwater testing under its belt, is highly reliable and available for mission.

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

  • Gives policy and force generation choice – highlighted by a personnel shortage crisis​

  • Minimal training burden for operators – mainly operates autonomously​

  • Relatively low unit cost – gives expendability​

  • 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

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