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Dstl Maritime Autonomous Systems Research
Dr A.C.Baker Underwater Systems
Above Water Systems
Anti-submarine warfare
Submarine capability
Remote mine counter-measures
Geospatial intelligenceMaritime systems
Maritime survivability
Maritime advice
Future maritime conceptsFuture Threat
Science and Technology Drivers
Threat Concepts
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Maritime Autonomy Surface Testbed (MAST)
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Project MAPLE
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Mine Counter-Measures
• Trial Hell Bay 4 – October 2016
• World first over-the-horizon mine hunting mission
• 1UAV, 2 USVs an 7 UUVs
Admiral Sir Philip Jones, First Sea Lord, 12th Sept 2017
‘Our intention is to deliver an unmanned capability for routine
mine countermeasure tasks in UK waters in 2 years’ time’
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• Objectives
1. Evaluate and de-risk unmanned vehicle technology
2. Understand and demonstrate the value of near real time high fidelity
oceanographic data
3. Combine data sources to give best environmental understanding
4. Develop tools to exploit high fidelity data to give RN information superiority
Geospatial Intelligence - MASSMO
Marine Autonomous Systems Supporting
Maritime Observations (trials) 2014-2018
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MASSMO programme
1. Robustness trials (getting them wet)
2. Understanding and post-processing data
3. Concepts of operation, real time data processing and
developing information products
4. Exploitation of acoustics for environmental understanding
and marine life mitigation
5a. Unmanned vehicles in northern latitudes (Collaboration
with CMRE June/July 18)(Aborted)
5b. East of Orkney (Oct 2018)
6. Further work in northern latitudes (+ under ice)
2014 2015
2016
2017
20182019-20
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Submarine Gliders
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MASSMO5b
• HMS Enterprise
• Testing of Ecosub
• Real-time model assimilation
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MASSMO Arctic - 2020
• Navigation under ice
• Communications under-ice
• Real-time data
• Oceanography (bio/chem/phys)
• Ice thickness and under-ice mapping
• Acoustics and information tools
• Information to support future ops
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Questions?