Case Study: Australian Institute of Marine Science achieves safer, faster seabed hazard detection with Advanced Navigation's Hydrus

Underwater Drone Hydrus Completes Successful Simulation to Identify Hazards in Tropical Waters

Advanced Navigation worked with the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS), a tropical marine research agency, to test an underwater solution for identifying hazards in challenging tropical waters. The challenge was to safely and efficiently scan a seabed for mine-like objects while reducing the cost, logistics, and personnel risk of traditional survey methods.

Advanced Navigation used its Hydrus micro hovering autonomous underwater vehicle, along with Subsonus and GNSS Compass on an autonomous surface vessel, to simulate autonomous seabed search and object detection at AIMS’ ReefWorks test range. The mission was completed successfully, with deployment and recovery taking under 30 minutes each time and repeated three times; Hydrus quickly identified targets and captured high-accuracy imagery, while the collected data was used to further train its AI model.

Australian Institute of Marine Science