Composite materials unmanned surface craft
Composite materials unmanned surface craft
The autonomous drone is designed by a diverse team of experts, including Ocius technology, one-2-three naval architects and composite materials consulting group (CCG). With decades of experience in solar-powered sailing, Ocius has developed the Bluebottle Stinger surface boat for continuous unmonitored ocean waters. The USV can get solar energy through solar panels, collect wind power through rigid sails, and create a forward momentum from the wave energy through a unique rudder. The result is a fully autonomous vessel, capable of maintaining an average speed of four knots and carrying more than 100 kilograms of payload.
Cost-effective Marine surveillance
The USV is designed to automatically deploy the sonar array to monitor the subsurface flow, while also capturing the video image from the surface. A team of USV works together, and a wide range of Marine areas require only minimal monitoring personnel, and they only need to do some regular maintenance. The benefits of this in terms of service costs are obvious.
Low weight and durability
It is important to build a ship that can operate efficiently, but also to maintain the durability of all sea conditions. In response to these challenges, CCG chose the HM80 IPN foam of the platinum company for hull and keel shell, and Matrix 7-7 for deck shells and removable hatches.
The structure was designed by Australia's CCG company in accordance with ISO 12215 ** standard, and was made by Australian builder Steber international, which USES hand pasted vinyl ester resin and E glass fiber reinforced materials. Prototype hull shell with belt mesh folding foam board and keel forming temporarily, and then apply the outer skin and reinforced material, and to get off the shell from the mold, apply on skin, made a final rigid shell.
The wing sail used unstructured EPS foam as the model to attach to the hollow carbon mast pipe during manufacture. In order to build support structure for the model, the transverse gluten made from Matrix 7-7 foam is embedded in EPS every 550 mm. These transverse bars allow the model to adhere well to the mast and lightweight carbon fiber epidermal reinforcement materials.
