News Articles with Category: Sensors
September 5, 2014 – via National Oceanography Centre
Very small in size, it is based on a microfluidic design, which requires very small volumes of seawater to generate a reading. It is also being designed as an autonomous system able to operate on a number of oceanographic platforms and down to depths of several thousand metres.
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July 7, 2014 – via Valeport
Valeport’s UV-SVP (Underwater Vehicle – Sound Velocity Profiler) is based on the company’s miniSVS and offers a form factor designed for underwater vehicles where space is at a premium.
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May 7, 2014 – via Cathx Ocean
The Cathx M12 imaging system aboard the AUV extracts information in real-time from the underwater images it collects and uses it to provide critical decision-making data to the AUV
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May 5, 2014 – via Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
The scientists believe that it could have other applications, such as on marine biology research platforms in which cameras need to see both above and below the surface.
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April 25, 2014 – via Marine Scotland
Although this Good Practice Guide is not intended as a standard, these guidelines address the need for a common approach, and the desire to promote best practice.
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March 27, 2014 – via Rockland Scientific International,
The probe guard is designed to protect RSI’s MicroRider turbulence sensor probes, particularly when deployed on ocean gliders, whilst minimising flow disturbance around the sensor probes.
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March 19, 2014 – via Teledyne RD Instruments
We are once again pleased to offer the academic oceanographic community the opportunity to utilize these tools free of charge for a near-term deployment via Teledyne RDI’s Academic Product Grant. Your project can include ADCPs, CTDs, or a combination of the two technologies.
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February 3, 2014 – via SBG Systems
SBG Systems releases the Ekinox Subsea Series at SUBSEA EXPO (UK). Ekinox Subsea Series is a product family of survey-grade inertial systems designed for underwater applications – up to 6,000m.
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December 11, 2013 – via SRI International
The true value of underwater mass spectrometers is the ability to achieve continuous measurement of volatile gases, light hydrocarbons, and organic compounds.
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November 12, 2013 – via Co.L.Mar
This spring, the company completed the first ALD prototype for installation on an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), with successful trials in a test pool and at sea.
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November 1, 2013 – via 2G Robotics
ULS-500 Profiler mounted inside the Kongsberg Hugin AUV.
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October 9, 2013 – via ETLG
ETLG Inertial Aerosystems has developed the sensor in ranges from 2g to 200g FS. It aims to market the accelerometer to down hole tools, unmanned vehicle inertial navigation, tilt and position and seismic applications.
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October 8, 2013 – via XPRIZE
The Challenge: Improve Our Understanding of Ocean Acidification
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September 13, 2013 – via Naval Postgraduate School Monterey
This purchase upcoming sensor purchase from AML is for the replacement of advanced oceanographic environmental sensors for the autonomous gliders.
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August 26, 2013 – via Stanford
A robotic sensor placed in Puget Sound searches for signs of toxic algae and bacteria that contaminate seafood. A successful test run of the Stanford-affiliated project could lead to a network of robots patrolling the area, providing early warnings that could save millions of dollars annually.
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August 13, 2013 – via Northeastern University
To do so, he needs electronic devices that can sense chemical inputs, such as explosives. His idea is to integrate various microelectronic sensors that can interface with living cells.
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August 2, 2013 – via SOCOM
SOCOM this week issued a sources-sought notice (Replacement_Doppler_Velocity_Log) to acquire drop-in replacement Doppler velocity log (DVL) with MIL-STD-1553B-2013 using the latest technology. The DVL shall be integrated with an OCTANS 1000 gyrocompass and a pressure sensor.
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July 30, 2013 – via Epson
“The M-G352 and M-G362 IMUs were designed specifically for customers with applications requiring extremely high sensitivity and accuracy,”
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June 13, 2013 – via Bowling Green State University
For the past two years the team has been trying to figure out how specific sensory capabilities in fish can be transferred to state-of-the-art sensory technology that can be applied to creating superior sensors for military and civilian applications with AUVs.
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March 18, 2013 – via Nasa Tech Briefs
They consist of electrically conductive plastics, which are sprayed on to the sensor surface in an ultra-thin layer.
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February 19, 2013 – via MBARI
Haddock also hopes to secure funds to attach a SCPI camera onto one of MBARI’s autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV), to collect continuous records of jellies and other animals at various ocean depths.
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January 28, 2013 – via Engineering and Technology Magazine
Engineers at Nanyang Technical University in Singapore have prototyped the sensors, which use a combination of computer vision and water pressure technology to create a 3D image of their surroundings
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January 21, 2013 – via Kraken Sonar Systems
The funding will be applied to the development of AquaTrak™ – a new Correlation Velocity Log (CVL) designed for underwater navigation. AquaTrak™ will be used to measure the speed over ground of Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs) and can also be used for high resolution current profiling.
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December 18, 2012 – via NASA Tech Briefs
This system would be useful for inspections and surgeries, as well as in any stereo imaging system using two cameras.
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December 12, 2012 – via Nanyang Technological University
“To mimic nature, our team created microscopic sensory pillars wrapped in hydrogel — a material which is similar to the natural neuromasts of the blind cave fish — into an array of two rows of five sensors,” Prof Miao said. “This array of micro-sensors will then allow AUVs to locate, identify, and classify obstacles and objects in water through water pressure and also to optimise its movement in water by sensing the water flow.”
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November 13, 2012 – via 2G Robotics
The ULS-200 ideal scan range is between 0.25m and 2.5m. This longer scanning range makes the ULS-200 relevant to a more extensive range of applications.
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October 23, 2012 – via 2G Robotics
By implementing filtering, which require longer scan times, point cloud data noise similar to that at 3m can be achieved at the 9m range.
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October 15, 2012 – via OceanServer
Pairing this powerful sensor with the Iver2 AUV provides users with a powerful new survey approach for collecting magnetic data.
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October 7, 2012 – via Military and Aerospace Electronics
Navigation and Timekeeping Technology program seeks to develop a small, portable quantum physics-based gravimeter/accelerometer for underwater navigation application; a bathymetric underwater navigation device by sonar and light detection and ranging (lidar); and precise navigation in littoral sub-surface and surface navigation using various sensors such as sonar, radar, and lidar.
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September 7, 2012 – via Subsea World News
This is a challenging goal. The pressure changes are smaller than the background pressure by a factor of about 10 million, and the deep ocean is a hostile environment for mechanical components with erosion and high pressures.
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September 6, 2012 – via The Engineer
Technology originally designed to measure gravity in space is being adapted for use in oil and gas exploration.
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July 9, 2012 – via BostInno
The Institute can also lay claim to a new robotic, 3D camera system responsible for taking “the world record-setting, highest-resolution underwater image”.
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July 6, 2012 – via Geometrics
Weston Solutions, The University of Delaware and Geometrics recently participated in a project to install and operate a magnetometer in a Teledyne Gavia AUV to locate underwater UXOs.
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April 18, 2012 – via Military and Aerospace Electronics
Navigation and guidance experts at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Va., are trying to reduce the military’s reliance on Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite guidance for advanced munitions, mid- and long-range missiles, and other weapons by creating a navigation-system-on-a-chip that combines traditional and atomic inertial guidance technology.
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February 28, 2012 – via Bluefin Robotics
Bluefin Robotics will assist in developing systems of configurable technology to address Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) surveillance needs over large, operationally relevant areas.
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February 27, 2012 – via Turner Designs
Turner Designs is excited to introduce a 6000 meter version of our very popular Cyclops-7 Submersible Fluorometer.
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February 7, 2012 – via Military and Aerospace Electronics
Navigation and guidance researchers at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Va., are asking test and measurement experts at the Honeywell Aerospace Microelectronics & Precision Sensors segment in Plymouth, Minn., develop a universal testing platform for advanced miniature gyroscopes under development for smart munitions, ships, vehicles, aircraft, infantry soldiers, and ocean divers.
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November 25, 2011 – via Satlantic
The new SUNA Deep has a pressure rating of 2000 m and comes with updated firmware for easy integration with profiling floats, gliders and AUV’s.
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November 23, 2011 – via NIST
A team of university researchers, aided by scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), have succeeded in integrating a new, highly efficient piezoelectric material into a silicon microelectromechanical system (MEMS).
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November 9, 2011 – via MIT
Lateral lines in fish contain hundreds of tiny pressure and velocity sensors that enable them to navigate through currents and eddies as efficiently as possible. To mimic that ability, MIT researchers have developed inexpensive, sensitive MEMS-based pressure sensors and mounted them on a small experimental vessel in a pattern that replicates the distribution of the lateral lines
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October 26, 2011 – via Valeport
The VA500 uses a state-of-the-art signal processing system with a 500kHz broadband transducer to provide stable, repeatable readings to a resolution of 1mm over a range of 0.1m-100m. The system takes a significant step forward in performance for a 500KHz altimeter.
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September 25, 2011 – via Princeton Securities
Completion of a custom radiation detection package for iRobot(TM) UUV
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September 21, 2011 – via NERC
Sensors on Autonomous Underwater Gliders
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September 6, 2011 – via Ocean News and Technology
Scientists use a novel method to measure rate of Deepwater Horizon oil spewing into the Gulf
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August 27, 2011 – via New England Business Bulletin
Aquabotix will introduce its Aqualens underwater video camera to consumers on Sept. 15 at the popular Newport Boat Show. The integrated camera, which can be extended and manipulated underwater, delivers live video to an LCD display, allowing boaters to investigate safety concerns, find items lost overboard, or just check out the marine life below them.
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August 1, 2011 – via Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory
Carbon Explorer floats follow ocean currents, yo-yoing back and forth in the first kilometer below the surface of the sea, then resurfacing to report their data and receive new instructions via satellite. Since the early 2000s a dozen Carbon Explorers have produced detailed information on the carbon cycle in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Southern Ocean
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July 7, 2011 – via UC San Diego
In the past three years we’ve been working on flexible, printable sensors, and the capabilities of our group made it possible to extend these systems for use underwater.
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June 23, 2011 – via Stanford University
Stanford researchers have developed a microphone that can be used at any depth in the ocean, even under crushing pressure, and is sensitive to a wide range of sounds, from a whisper in a library to an explosion of TNT. They modeled their device after the extraordinarily acute hearing of orcas.
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June 23, 2011 – via Sequoia Scientific
The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) tested Sequoia’s LISST-HOLO sensor in April 2011, during a coastal oceanography study in Monterey Bay, California.
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May 20, 2011 – via National Science Foundation
Microbiologists at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute have developed a machine that uses built-in robotics to study water quality while underwater.
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April 28, 2011 – via Princeton Security Technologies
PST received a multi-unit custom design contract from prominent Robot manufacturer for Special Compact Low-Powered Nuclear Isotopic Identifiers used in Japan nuclear crisis.
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March 16, 2011 – via Thomasnet
Enabling surveys and measurements of underwater facilities, M300UW scans up to 9 x 7 ft target area from up to 10 ft away. Point cloud, when utilized with third-party 3D software, enables generation of fully measurable CAD model of scanned area. Resulting output accuracy is up to 0.005 in. Designed to operate in air or water, scanner can work as close as 1.5 ft from target surface and supports use in depths to 320 ft.
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March 9, 2011 – via Newton Labs
Time-efficient surveys and precise measurements of larger underwater facilities, from bridge and pier substructures to smaller, submerged piping and valve assemblies are now possible with a new underwater laser scanner, the M300UW developed and manufactured by Newton Labs of Seattle, Washington. The scanner, designed to operate at a longer stand-off distance, produces a point cloud so detailed that when utilized with industry standard three-dimensional software, a fully measurable CAD model of a scanned area can be generated.
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January 17, 2011 – via PhysOrg.com
Researchers from Northwestern University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are the first to develop a curvilinear camera, much like the human eye, with the significant feature of a zoom capability, unlike the human eye.
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January 5, 2011 – via Teledyne RDI
Teledyne RD Instruments (RDI) announced today the release of its new Phased Array Velocity Sensor (PAVS) 150 for extended range navigation applications. The PAVS-150 is the industry’s first 1000 meter depth rated compact Doppler Velocity Log (DVL) designed to provide precision velocity data at up to 500 meters of altitude above the seafloor.
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August 31, 2010 – via BlueView
Subsea 7, one of the world’s leading subsea engineering and construction companies has chosen BlueView Technologies to provide the acoustic imaging systems for its new line of Autonomous Inspection Vehicles (AIVs)
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August 27, 2010 – via PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
A 22-mile-long plume of hydrocarbons floating 3,700 feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico — remnants of the BP oil spill — was discovered by scientists using an monitoring device developed by a laboratory in West Deer.
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July 29, 2010 – via 2G Robotics
2G Robotics has developed a set of libraries and a user interface for the Linux operating system. Now when performing high detailed underwater inspections of bridges, dams and other underwater infrastructure users have a choice of operating platform.
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