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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?