Kongsberg Discovery announced another successful milestone reached in the development of HUGIN Endurance following a record setting multi-week fully autonomous mission. After receiving a final navigation update from a pre-deployed transponder 10 hours into the dive, the 8-ton, 40 ft, Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) operated completely independent of all human interaction and with no external navigation aiding for the duration of the sortie. This mission was conducted at depths ranging from 50m to 3400m and met the advertised 1,200 nautical mile range. Most impressive of all, was that HUGIN Endurance returned with a position error of approximately 0.02% of total distance traveled!

Smashing AUV records, HUGIN Endurance completes a multi-week fully autonomous mission

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Kongsberg Discovery announced another successful milestone reached in the development of HUGIN Endurance following a record setting multi-week fully autonomous mission.

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