autonomous underwater vehicle
AUV stands for autonomous underwater vehicle and is commonly known as uncrewed underwater vehicle. AUVs can be used for underwater survey missions such as detecting and mapping submerged wrecks, rocks, and obstructions that can be a hazard to navigation for commercial and recreational vessels.

At their most fundamental level, autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are simply computer-controlled systems operating undersea. Now, AUVs can glide from the sea surface to ocean depths, and back. Others can stop, hover, and move like blimps or helicopters do through the air.

It has 1,700 kg, could stay underwater for 6 days, travel at 3 knots at a 1.6 km depth. The new century technology stressed mainly the deepsea research. To this purpose, many new types of AUVs were created, among which Hugin 3000 was produced by Kongsberg Simrad in Norway, to provide survey services.

The first AUV specifically deployed for marine geoscience was probably the IFREMER L’Epaulard AUV, which was used in the early 1980s to map deep-sea manganese nodule fields (Galerne, 1983).

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An Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) is an unmanned underwater robot that is capable of independently completing a pre-programmed mission.

Unlike remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), which are tethered to a service vessel, AUVs have no physical connection to their operator. Rather, AUVs are programmed or controlled by operators who may be on a vessel or even on shore, who tell an AUV where, when, and what should be sampled.

AUVs were created in the year 1957 and from that point on they have been a marine technology to watch out for. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) further developed the AUV technology in the year 1970 after which the standard of an autonomous underwater vehicle was raised to an altogether new level.