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Persistent Maritime Surveillance

Ocius Presentation

9 October 2019

AAUS

Agenda:

i) Background Bluebottle USV

ii) Recent trials ‘scenarios’

iii) ASW with Thales

iv) Summary

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1997 - 2000

•Winner Solar Boat race in Canberra•Inspires formation of Solar Sailor

2001 - 2013

•solar and sail and hybrid powered ferries in Australia, HK and China

•Provide design consultancy for sustainable shipping projects

•Numerous awards and honours

2014 - present

•“Nemo” prototype USV •$3M CTD to develop a ASWUSV•$1.6M DIH to develop “Intelligent C2 network” •Partnerships with UNSW, Steber, Thales•Australian SME Innovation Award Pac 2017•AW 18 success

OCIUS Technology Ltd

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1) ADF:

2) Home Affairs

3) Fisheries protection

4) Oil + Gas: monitoring, asset protection

5) Science: BOM, GA, CSIRO

6) Oceanographic research

Applications

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1) Fossil Fuel powered

2) Renewable energy powered

Todays USVs?

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R&D - 7 patent families & 2 registered designs in USA

rudder flipper winch solarsail

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Radar

VMS/ADSB

EW

MBES

pair with UUVs

Weather

Hurricane prediction & Tsunami sensors

Platform carrying Payloads

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WINCH-lowering sensors to significant and varying depths

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ASSET

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Introduction

▌ Thales Australia partnered with Ocius Technology

to demonstrate a proof of concept autonomous

Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) surveillance system

▌ Acoustic linear towed array integrated onto an

Unmanned Surface Vessel (USV) platform

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Purpose

▌ Demonstrate a persistent autonomous ASW surveillance system with sonar equipment

integrated onto a USV platform

▌ Reduce the number of personnel involved in the mission

▌ Elimination of repetitive, dirty and dangerous work

▌ Present a force multiplying autonomous system to Defence to assist large platforms e.g. surface ships and submarines

▌ Innovate to face the challenges of the 21st century

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Project Experience

▌ Conducted design, prototyping, testing and trialling of sonar

equipment at sea

▌ Able to progress from concept to demonstration in a short time

frame through R&D

▌ Exposed to an exciting area of development breaking new ground

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Outcomes – To Date

▌ Demonstration team of Autonomous Surface Vessels (ASV’s) conducting sonar operations

▌ Successful marine detection and tracking

▌ Proof of concept integrated system

Array sonar and AIS

tracking in agreement

Next Steps

▌ Increased sonar detection ranges

▌ Fully autonomous operations

▌ Scalable autonomous solution

▌ Ruggedisation of system for safe and secure long

term missions

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Target 1) Detection

range individual

BB

2) Detection between BB

overlapping detection ranges

3) Picket fence 5

BBs coverage

Class 1 Fishing boat 14 km 28 km 140 km

Case 2 Fast boat 8 km 16 km 80 km

Case 3 Ship 20 km 40 km 200 km

Picket Fence

Range Spacing

Capability Brick - modelling

Target 1) Detection range

individual BB

2) Detection between BB

overlapping detection ranges

3) Picket fence 5

BBs coverage

Class 1 Fishing boat 14 km 28 km 140 km

Case 2 Fast boat 8 km 16 km 80 km

Case 3 Ship 20 km 40 km 200 km

Target 1) Detection range

individual BB

2) Detection between BB

overlapping detection ranges

3) Picket fence 5

BBs coverage

Class 1 Fishing boat 14 km 28 km 140 km

Case 2 Fast boat 8 km 16 km 80 km

Case 3 Ship 20 km 40 km 200 km

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large areas long distances from mainland

monitoring below + above sea level

No crew

Disruptively low cost

Sovereign capability

Continuously

WHY?

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Thank you.

Questions and Answers.