An unmanned surface vehicle robot model; for autonomous sonobuoy deployment, and UAV landing platform

Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs) have limitless applications in civil, commercial and defence environments. Development of USVs is an ongoing and exciting field, and modern advances in computing technology give more creative power to the engineer(s). This paper aims to briefly outline the current state of USV robot technology, and the development of a USV concept design to meet the primary goals of autonomous payload deployment. This is inclusive of the generation of an initial concept, and validation of the chosen concept through hand calculations, simulation, and scale model testing. The results of these calculations and tests are summarised with reference to the projects goals, whilst future work entailed within the project is also discussed.