Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel (ACTUV)
Abstract
The Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel (ACTUV) program had three primary goals: (1) to build and demonstrate an experimental unmanned vessel with beyond state-of-the-art platform performance based on clean sheet design for unmanned operation; (2) demonstrate the technical viability of operating autonomous unmanned craft at theater or global ranges, from forward operating bases, under a sparse remote supervisory control model; and (3) leverage unique ACTUV characteristics to transition a game changing ASW capability to the Navy. When coupled with innovative sensor technologies, the ACTUV system provided a low cost unmanned system with a fundamentally different operational risk calculus that enables game changing capability to detect and track even the quietest diesel electric submarine threats. Key technical areas included unmanned naval vessel design methodologies, ship system reliability, high fidelity sensor fusion to provide an accurate world model for autonomous operation, novel application of sensors for ASW tracking, and holistic system integration due to unique optimization opportunities of the ACTUV system.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2019
- Source ID
- 7cc21ba14b8ba0cd2278d7b7262711e1
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