New Delhi, Nov. 15 -- A new generation of Man-portable Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (MP-AUVs) have been successfully developed by the Naval Science & Technological Laboratory (NSTL), Visakhapatnam of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) for mine countermeasure missions.
In a statement issued here, the Ministry of Defence stated that the system comprises multiple AUVs equipped with Side Scan Sonar and Underwater cameras as primary payloads for real-time detection and classification of Mine-Like Objects. The onboard deep learning-based target recognition algorithms enable autonomous classification, significantly reducing operator workload and mission time.
Additionally, a robust underwater acoustic communication has been i...