Hull inspection and confined area search capabilities of REMUS autonomous underwater vehicle

The REMUS-100 Hull and Harbor vehicle is being developed by the Ocean Systems Laboratory (OSL) at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, under Office of Naval Research (ONR) funding. The purpose of the vehicle is autonomous search and survey in close confines, such as harbors, finger piers and ship or submarine hulls. Initial tests of the system confirmed the unique suitability of this vehicle to this mission. Second generation developments leverage the strengths of the first generation engineering and continue to make the vehicle more autonomous, more productive and easier to apply to the specific restrictions of rapid, confined area search and survey.