No Pilothouse? No People? No Problem.

摘要

THE ANTI-SUBMARINE WARFARE (ASW) Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel (ACTUV) is a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DAR-PA) program from about ten years ago. The prograrr eventually became Sea Hunter autonomous unmanned surface vessel (USV) to demonstrate that a military surface vessel could operate without a crew for extended periods of time.If a USV can't navigate safely from point A to point B, then it can't do more complicated missions. Sea Hunter proved it was possible to build an autonomous surface vessel that could handle the command-and-control functions that are required so the continuous human command-and-control presence could be removed from of the vehicle. The next step is to have the USV autonomously manage all of its engineering functions for long voyages.