Intervention AUV maximum depth < 6000 m Kongsberg Maritime
HUGIN 1000 AUV

The HUGIN 1000 Autonomous underwater vehicle - AUV is capable of performing high-speed surveys with excellent navigation and payload data quality down to a depth of 1000 meters.

Two operational modes
The vehicle can be operated in either operator supervised or full autonomous mode. The special hydrodynamic shape, optional launching system and overall principles of our previous HUGIN 1 and 2 (operating in the North Sea since 1997) and the deepwater HUGIN 3000 vehicles have been further developed into the HUGIN 1000 design.

Minimized physical size
The additional features of the HUGIN 1000 AUV autonomous underwater vehicle include minimization in physical size but maintaining the ability to carry several different types of survey sensors for synchronized and simultaneous operation. The HUGIN concept allows integration of alternative sensors for geophysical, search and inspection purposes to be implemented, subject to customer demands.

Autonomous underwater vehicle operator station
The Operator Station includes a monitor and an operator panel with interfaces to payload operator stations and vessel mounted sensors like dGPS, HiPAP, ship attitude sensor, acoustic link and RF link systems.

Customer benefits
Very stable and low noise hydrodynamic platform for payload sensors
High manoeuvrability providing terrain following and turning radius of 15 metres
Maximum operating depth 3000 metres
Operator supervised ("acoustic tether"), semiautonomous or autonomous operation
State of the art Aided Inertial Navigation System (AINS)
Provides robustness and sound technical solutions to the demands of modern navies
Latest battery technology with up to 24 hours endurance at 4 knots
Highly flexible configuration and integration of payload systems
Typical payload sensors are synthetic aperture sonar or side-scan sonar, multibeam echo sounder, sub-bottom profiler, CTD and volume search sonar