News Articles with Category: Docking Stations
November 15, 2012 – via Naval Postgraduate School
Engineers from the NPS Center for Autonomous Vehicle Research (CAVR) and the Department of Oceanography are developing an interface so that the Monterey Inner Shelf Observatory (MISO), located in 16 m deep water 600 meters offshore from NPS, can host a REMUS docking station developed by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI).
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October 31, 2012 – via Electro Standards Laboratory
Targeted applications for this technology include: recharging stations for unmanned underwater vehicles, replacement or augmentation for solar power, elimination of batteries, sonar listening stations, weather monitoring buoys, wave monitoring buoys, tsunami warning stations, and port monitoring buoys.
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October 30, 2012 – via Design News
The docking station looks a cage-like frame that houses the docked vehicle. An acoustic transmitter provides a signal used to guide the vessel safely to the dock. Coils on the station transmit energy to vehicle batteries, and a WiFi network allows the data exchange between the vessels and the dock
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October 8, 2012 – via Boston Globe
Bluefin has built a docking station that communicates directly with underwater vehicles, guiding them to where they can recharge and transfer data.
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