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Robotic Sub-Hunters Pass Milestone

posted by janrinok on Saturday March 28 2015, @06:02AM   Printer-friendly
from the ..and-then-the-submarine-sinks-it dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

An autonomous sub-hunting ship passed an important technological milestone and the oceans may never be the same.

In 2010, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, announced that they were building a 132-foot autonomous boat to track quiet, diesel-powered submarines. The program was dubbed Anti-submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel, or ACTUV.

To little notice, the system earlier this year passed a critical test, moving much closer to actual deployment and potentially changing not just naval warfare but also the way humans, ships, and robotic systems interact across the world’s waters.

In six weeks of tests along a 35-nautical mile stretch of water off of Mississippi, testers at engineering company Leidos and DARPA put the ACTUV’s systems through 100 different scenarios. The test boat, equipped with nothing more than off-the-shelf radar components, a digital area chart and some proprietary software, was able to complete an autonomous trip without crashing into rocks, shoals, or erratically behaving surface vessels. In future tests, the ship will tail a target boat at 1 kilometer distance.

Reminds me of an old STNG episode, prompting the question, yet again, "Does Man learn *nothing* from Star Trek?"

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 28 2015, @08:36AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 28 2015, @08:36AM (#163479)

    Obviously you do not remember, because her name was Moya and she only landed on the surface of an ocean, because the pressure of submersion would have killed her. If you're going to pretend to be a sci-fi nerd, get your details straight, you fucking poser.

  • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Saturday March 28 2015, @08:46AM

    by aristarchus (2645) on Saturday March 28 2015, @08:46AM (#163481) Journal

    No, she submerged. Citation needed, oh challenger of my geekiness!

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 28 2015, @11:52AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 28 2015, @11:52AM (#163504)

    Thank you for correcting her name.

  • (Score: 2) by tibman on Saturday March 28 2015, @07:16PM

    by tibman (134) Subscriber Badge on Saturday March 28 2015, @07:16PM (#163620)

    Still wrong : ) She landed in a swamp to use the mud/water to dampen a Peacekeeper beacon. Another stupid/brilliant idea from that primitive John Crichton. No Leviathan had landed on a planet before. Though they skimmed atmospheres for fun as young ships.

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