StrateSea and the HII Unmanned Systems team recently completed a successful in-water demonstration of closed-loop autonomous target recognition behavior, marking a key step forward in transitioning subsea operations from post-mission analysis to real-time autonomy.
During the demonstration, the system executed a complete operational workflow starting from target detection, moving to vehicle retasking, and concluding with target reacquisition using a different sonar acoustic frequency. Field personnel were able to adapt the model on the edge for a new target and environment following updated intelligence, redeploy it, and immediately continue operations.
This rapid field flexibility is enabled by StrateSea’s Raven edge platform. The platform’s modular architecture allowed Raven’s autonomous target recognition capability to be incorporated into HII’s Odyssey autonomy within a day, followed by full integration with HII’s REMUS unmanned underwater vehicle platform in less than a week.
“There is still work to do as we continue refining the integration, but this was an important demonstration of mission-adaptable ATR at the edge,” StrateSea stated regarding the achievement. “More broadly, we believe this is where subsea autonomy is heading: systems that don’t just execute a pre-planned mission but can understand what they encounter and use that information to influence what the vehicle does next.”
