Advanced Navigation

Oceans are key to the survival of planet Earth, and we require a far greater understanding of the interaction between oceans, climate and humans to succeed in solving our problems.

There are needs to reduce the cost, risks and complexity associated with subsea exploration.

Advanced Navigation was instrumental in providing solutions that enabled the drone revolution to come to fruition.

Coupled with 10 years of R&D in sonar technology, we saw the parallels between the underwater robotics market and where the aerial drone market was 15 years ago.

We applied this knowledge to sonar positioning and navigation, to develop an underwater robot that miniaturised multiple technologies to enable a drone-like experience for users, underwater.

The result was Hydrus, a fully autonomous submersible vehicle transforming undersea research, inspection, detection and classification by making data capture simple and accessible.

The design of Hydrus synthesises numerous bleeding edge navigational and data capture technologies with highly developed and sophisticated artificial neural network intelligence.

This makes the overall package efficient, portable, fully autonomous, and enables Hydrus to move like no other underwater vehicle, alleviating the need for expensive remote operated vehicles (ROVs), survey vessels, watercraft, highly trained operators and divers.