IMDEX Asia: ST Engineering pushes new unmanned tech
ST Engineering is highlighting three unmanned products at IMDEX Asia 2017: the Mercury AUV, the Venus family of USVs and a conceptual long-endurance USV.
The latter is new. Called the Long Endurance Unmanned Surface Vessel (LEUSV), it is a 45m-long craft ‘equipped with advanced autonomy technologies’.
Boasting an intelligent power management system to give a 28-day endurance, it also employs computational fluid dynamic techniques for greater speed, higher manoeuvrability and better seakeeping.
An ST Engineering image depicts the LEUSV acting as a mothership for a rigid-hulled inflatable boat.
ST Electronics, in conjunction with DSO National Laboratories, has also
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