News Review: iRobot introduces enhanced Seaglider UUV | ADM November 2011

US robotics leader iRobot Corp. is introducing a newly configured Seaglider Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV). Seaglider can now be outfitted with a larger set of fairings that significantly increases its volume and mass payload capabilities.

Payload mass is doubled over Seaglider’s original design to four kilograms and payload volume has expanded 650 percent to more than 21,000 cubic centimeters, resulting in the ability to integrate both larger sensors and a greater number of sensors with Seaglider. Seaglider has five sensor payload ports that facilitate a range of capabilities. A long-range, high endurance UUV, Seaglider operates at depths between 20 and 1,000m. It is also the first UUV to complete a mission lasting longer than nine months without needing to replace its battery.

Subject: Air