A Hybrid Autonomous Unmanned Vehicle system opening new horizons in conducting military operations in the marine environment

Project Overview:

The main idea of PASITHEA the development of a new design merging the well-known UAV’s and UUV’s technologies into a combined technology for a Hybrid Unmanned Vehicle, which can fly, hover in the air and sail, hover under the water and which has the ability to repeat air water trans-media motions. The HAUV will be able to be launched and recovered from platforms/units operated, and controlled by land, sea (surface/underwater) and air. The project includes the design of a high-level control, command, communication, and intelligence (C3I) system. The carrier vessel/unit can also be embedded with point-to-multipoint networking through the HAUV, meaning after it releases the HAUV, the system can communicate and relay with friendly forces operating nearby. The drone will be designed to return to the operator or to an indicated/predetermined position manually /autonomously/combined using an advanced mission planning subsystem. The fact it is released from underwater means it could not be expendable but returnable to the underwater mother carrier. The concept of the PASITHEA application and the derived relevant technologies have not been combinedly applied in the European defence sector previously.

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