News Articles with Category: Docking Stations

AUV Docking Station Integration with Monterey Inner Shelf Observatory

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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Ocean Wave Energy Harvesting Systems Designed to Minimize Size of Batteries or Eliminate Batteries with Supercapacitors

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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Docking Stations Let Sea Robots Recharge Batteries

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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Deep sea stations could recharge underwater robots

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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