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is quite old and is no longer considered emblematic exploration ships of all time, being used to assemble complex Defense important research resource, open to uni-
something innovative from a technological the HMS Endurance (1915), are examples systems that arouse interest in several versities and companies from the Brazilian
point of view, giving this role to AUVs. Cur- of a little-known segment of the Blue Econ- countries. The USV Tupan unmanned sur- Defense Industrial Base (BID) to carry out
rently, an important mass of researchers in omy. which employs the most modern fea- face vehicle, designed and manufactured tests and experiments, using a modern
research centers, such as CENPES (Petro- tures of autonomous underwater vehicles by the Rio de Janeiro company Tidewise, surface platform. The VSNT-E has been
bras) and Universities, have been study- available on the market. Thanks to techno- also for offshore operations, has proved to attracting, mainly, the attention of young
ing the use of AUV to inspect faster and logical advances in search and location sen- be a very versatile tool for carrying out sur- researchers from the partner Universities
smarter installations on the seabed used in sors, combined with high autonomy and face tasks for the Navy. UFRJ, UFF and USP, who already develop
offshore exploration and production. These the ability to operate in a “swarm” (multi- The demand for research and innovative applied research with this vehicle.
vehicles, because they do not have a phys- ple vehicles simultaneously and in a coordi- solutions in the area of unmanned vehicles In addition to vehicles, the need to mon-

ical connection (umbilical) to the mother nated manner), shipwrecks and wreckage is vast and requires multidisciplinary solu- itor the various Essential Ocean Variables

ship and because they have great auton- from major accidents that occurred at sea tions, which transcend the main area of ac- (EOV) defined by the Global Ocean Observ-
omy and the ability to configure their pay- have been located more frequently. tivity of a research laboratory. It is import- ing System (GOOS), a system that the coun-
load (instrument compartment), represent Defense ant to develop the culture of a Research try is a member of through GOOS-Brasil,
unprecedented flexibility and resource op- Coordinating Center, in which efforts and should also be highlighted. Monitoring de-
timization in the underwater inspection ac- It is customary to associate the use of investments can be made transversal, mands for navigation assistance, offshore,
tivity. Interventions in background devices, unmanned platforms with the execution connecting different actors in search of a port and coastal engineering activities,
situations in which some type of actuation of tasks that involve the three “Ds”: Dirty, common solution. The Navy, for example, weather and climate forecasting, scientif-
must be performed, continue to be operat- Dull or Dangerous. Remotely operated or has been using its Technological Center in ic-technological research and the econom-
ed by ROV. Research in this field stands out autonomous vehicles are great platforms Rio de Janeiro to focus initiatives on un- ic development of industries such as fishing
for the manufacture of increasingly sophisti- to carry out missions where the risk to the manned maritime systems and to coordi- and aquaculture should also be included.
cated and innovative tools, which allow the operator’s life is high, the employment en- nate research carried out at the Center for The creation and strengthening of instru-
execution of tasks beyond human capacity vironment is inhospitable and/or the tasks Analysis of Naval Systems (CASNAV) and mentation groups that work in the devel-
and without risking the operator’s life. performed require long stays with little Navy Research Institute (IPqM - Instituto de opment of measurement platforms that
complexity. Military maritime operations Pesquisas da Marinha), applying the results help to meet these demands is extremely
Underwater Search and Archaeology
are often able to incorporate these three to the Experimental Unmanned Surface important. These teams must work both
Locating, identifying, and retrieving characteristics, such as anti-submarine Vehicle (VSNT-E). CASNAV teams develop in the development of low-cost platforms
valuables deposited on the seabed is a search over a wide geographic area. The work in the area of computer vision, oper- and sensors, as well as in the creation/use

complex and time-consuming task, even Defense sector represents an important ational research, artificial intelligence, sim- of more complex or delicate systems, such
in shallow and calm waters. Damaged air- part of the unmanned vehicle market and ulation, augmented reality and command as the use of marine animals for oceano-
craft and sunken vessels are some practical many times the duality of the technologi- and control systems, while IPqM focuses graphic measurements.
examples of important objects to be de- cal solution found for a military problem is on solutions for inertial systems, weapons Measuring platforms, including autono-
tected. Autonomous vehicles are increas- taken to the civil industry, bringing benefits systems, combat systems, materials and mous, fixed, drifting, etc., with national or
ingly suitable to help clarify the causes of to society, and involving the Academy in acoustics. Thanks to the intertwining of imported sensors, need certain specificities
an accident, recover objects of historical the research phase, the which is called the research results and the central coordina- for each application. As an example, the
or material value, or simply define the ex- Triple Helix of development (government, tion of the CTMRJ, a research platform is measurement of sea surface temperature
act position of a given event/material. The academy, and industry). Today, solutions now available, in the form of a floating lab- (SST) far from the coast and for the purpos-
expeditions mounted to locate the wreck such as the AUV Flatfish, developed by SE- oratory, which integrates the results of all es of climate prediction, requires sensors
of the Argentine submarine ARA San Juan NAI-CIMATEC in a research project with a these work fronts in a coordinated manner. that cost from one to three thousand dol-
(2017) and the sinking of one of the most company in the Oil and Gas industry, are The VSNT-E has been standing out as an lars and that are installed in oceanographic

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