The “Technology Awareness Event” showcased a singular magnificence of long-endurance UUVs able to handing over more than one payloads in communication-restricted farmlands.
RESTON, Va., Sept. 3, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Metron Inc., in partnership with Cellula Robotics USA, Inc. an entirely owned subsidiary of Cellula Robotics Ltd. introduced nowadays the a hit final touch of a sequence of Uncrewed Underwater Car (UUV) demonstrations to exhibit the features of the unutilized ANCC+Solus answer for cover and industrial packages. The demonstrations, thought to be a “Technology Awareness Day”, featured two variations of the ANCC+Solus UUV platform executing in-water missions to focus on the totally self sustaining, long-duration, hydrogen gasoline mobile powered features advanced via Metron and Cellula. Consumers throughout Canadian, United States, and United Kingdom protection companies, in addition to, representatives from the industrial offshore power sector attended the development to evaluate the technological superiority and flexibility of the ANCC+Solus answer for cover and industrial operations the place prolonged succeed in, in-situ venture making plans, and multi-payload features ship a strategic merit.
The good fortune of this tournament represents an important milestone within the Metron-Cellula dating, who introduced their strategic partnership in February of 2024, round the similar past Neil Manning used to be introduced as Cellula’s unutilized Govt Officer. The strategic partnership used to be shaped as a part of each and every corporate’s constancy in order a admirable UUV strategy to meet stream marketplace calls for that may scale to massive manufacturing volumes. In the course of the dating, each and every corporate has leveraged area explicit experience; Metron’s Resilient Mission Autonomy™ suite and Cellula’s {hardware} and gasoline mobile generation to build groundbreaking developments in self sustaining car generation during the ANCC +Solus answer.
ANCC+Solus is a completely self sustaining, long-duration, long-endurance, self-sufficient underwater platform designed for prolonged missions. Powered via hydrogen gasoline cells, it offer unprecedented persistence and space. Supplied with a various array of sensors, together with the NORBIT WINGHEAD™ and alternative continual sensing programs, it could possibly store essential knowledge in even essentially the most difficult situations. Its flexible payload capability permits for personalisation to satisfy explicit venture necessities, making it ultimate for operations in farmlands with restricted or disrupted verbal exchange. With its remarkable features, ANCC+Solus units a unutilized usual for long-duration, continual surveillance, and multi-effects payload deliveries.
The “Technology Awareness Day,” commenced with a morning consultation that integrated a excursion of Cellula’s complete scale manufacturing, production, and construction facility in Burnaby, Canada. Nearest the excursion, attendees skilled a hands-on demonstration of the Cellula’s hydrogen gasoline mobile generation. This interactive enjoy allowed individuals to realize a deeper working out of the generation’s features and its position in enabling self sustaining cars to perform with most potency and minimum environmental have an effect on. The morning consultation additionally integrated highlights of Metron’s Resilient Undertaking Democracy™ these days in significance throughout protection methods and in offshore power survey packages. Metron’s workforce reviewed the fast integration in their complete liberty, in-situ venture making plans and replanning, and complicated introspective and extrospective liberty into the Cellula platforms. NORBIT wrapped up the morning with a complete evaluate in their complicated sensor programs.
The afternoon demonstrations equipped a impressive exhibit of in-water features. 4 missions performed off the coast of Vancouver, Canada, demonstrated the Solus-LR and Solus-XR’s versatility and potency. Every venture highlighted key options adapted to buyer necessities: seamless transit and deployment, real-time venture making plans and adaptation, and complicated self sustaining networking. The brilliant finale featured a synchronized swim between the 2 cars, showcasing their skill to collaborate seamlessly in multi-vehicle operations.
By means of the tip of this system, the Generation Consciousness Generation proved the synergistic advantages of those built-in applied sciences. In combination, Cellula’s complicated hydrogen gasoline cells, mixed with Metron’s Resilient Undertaking Democracy and NORBIT’s complicated sensor programs, build a formidable self sustaining car answer that may navigate advanced environments and carry out essential missions with remarkable reliability.
“Last week’s demonstrations showcased the power of collaboration and teamwork between Metron, Cellula, and NORBIT, as we advance the art of the possible in the undersea domain,” said Van Gurley, President and Govt Officer of Metron Inc. “We are jointly delivering truly disruptive innovation in UUV capabilities, rapidly fielding solutions that can scale with our customer’s requirements. The in-water demonstrations highlighted the remarkable impact the ANCC+Solus UUV solutions deliver. These aren’t just design ideas, these are actual vehicles, in the water, proving our capabilities for full autonomy, ease of operations, and adaptative and precise mission planning for complex extended missions.”
Cellula’s Govt Officer, Neil Manning said: “The Technology Awareness Event gave us the opportunity to demonstrate not only our technology but also the strength of our partnership. Combining unique, long range autonomous underwater vehicles with the mission-based autonomy of Metron in front of key end-users showed the potential of what is achievable. Our ultra long-range AUVs enable operators to imagine mission profiles that were not feasible until now.”
Peter Ok. Eriksen, Industry Unit Director, NORBIT Oceans commented “It is important to demonstrate both system performance and functionality, so with our sensor suite involving WINGHEAD™ Forward Looking and Bathymetric multibeam sonars, together with PingDSP 3DSS™ imaging 3D sidescan technology as well as INNOMAR Sub Bottom Profilers, the Technology Awareness Event provided a valuable market partner platform to highlight the capability and need for high resolution, clean and mission ready payload sensors on vehicles. We now look forward to extending our cooperation with Cellula together with Metron to provide the mission ready operational sensor delivery.
The success of this Technology Awareness Event marks the beginning of a series of demonstrations throughout 2024 and 2025, showcasing the next-generation UUVs developed by Metron and Cellula.
About Metron Inc.:
Metron Inc. is an award-winning, trusted provider of advanced research, scientific, and software solutions for government and commercial markets. The Company delivers a competitive edge for our customers in six key areas: analytics, autonomy, decision superiority, sensor processing, fusion, and custody. Metron’s multi-domain expertise spans Bayesian inference, probabilistic modeling, artificial intelligence, machine learning, tracking and data fusion. Grounded in a first principled approach, Metron solutions transform information into intelligent action.
Founded in 1984, Metron is employee-owned and headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with U.S. locations in Portland, Denver, San Diego, and Honolulu.
Metron: Innovate. Integrate. Impact.
More information about Metron Inc. is available at www.metsci.com.
Cellula Robotics Ltd.
Cellula Robotics Ltd. is a proudly Canadian, privately owned, world-leading marine technology company focused on revolutionizing underwater survey and security through advanced, modular long endurance Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) systems.
Headquartered in Burnaby, British Columbia with additional offices on the East Coast of Canada and the United States, Cellula employs over 80 dedicated professionals, including highly skilled engineers, designers, and technicians.
Driven by innovation and industry knowledge, we are committed to crafting sustainable solutions for the defense, offshore energy and scientific sectors. Our hydrogen fuel cell-powered long range AUVs address evolving demands, propelling us towards a greener future.
Our unyielding commitment to quality is evident through our ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management System that not only underscores our dedication to excellence but also reflects our ability to consistently surpass the expectations of our clients. www.cellula.com
NORBIT Oceans
NORBIT Oceans delivers tailored technology solutions to the international maritime markets. The diversified customer base includes survey companies, research organizations, military, governmental institutions, dredging companies, rental companies, offshore construction clients and marine contractors.
Through Oceans, NORBIT specializes in designing and developing a range of different sonars, including wideband multibeam sonars, 3D sidescan sonars; sub bottom profilers and long-range surveillance sonars, for exploring the ocean space.
NORBIT bathymetric sonars are used for seabed mapping, construction support, inspection, and subsurface navigation with multiple other applications subsea. NORBIT is also a provider of security and monitoring solutions for detecting and monitoring activity at sea. Using forward looking sonars allows detection of threats below the surface and NORBIT technology can be used for obstacle avoidance on underwater vehicles such as AUVs; mine countermeasures and threat target detection and tracking of divers or other moving objects to critical infrastructure.
Additionally, monitoring solutions above the water surface are provided through an integrated offering, where NORBIT delivers sensors, control systems and surveillance solutions, providing the customers with a single common operational picture for decision support and operational risk management. Further more, NORBIT also offers other technologies and products in some selected niches in the maritime domain. www.norbit.com.
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