Man-Portable Autonomous Underwater Vehicles:
New generations of man-portable autonomous underwater vehicles (MP-AUVs) have been successfully developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation.
- It is developed for mine countermeasure missions.
- It is developed by the Naval Science & Technological Laboratory (NSTL), Visakhapatnam of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).
- It offers rapid response capability with reduced operational risk and logistic footprint for naval mine warfare applications.
- It has deep learning based target recognition algorithms enabling autonomous classification.
- It comprises multiple AUVs equipped with Side Scan Sonar and Under Water cameras as primary payloads for real-time detection & classification of Mine-Like Objects.
- It has a robust underwater acoustic communication network which allows seamless data exchange between AUVs during missions and providing greater situational awareness.
