DNV DNV-RU-UWT PART 5 CHAPTER 8 [ Active ]

Unmanned autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV) are usually equipped with own power supply and own open and closed loop control including eventual control by active and/or passive sensors and computer hard- and software, to fulfil predefined missions in autonomous way for a certain time period. Afterwards they are recovered by a support vessel and are re-supplied, maintained and transferred to the location of the next mission.

The tasks of the AUV serve mainly for the execution of missions for surveillance, observation, measurements, making films, cartographic records, etc. Other tasks are possible as far as the power demand can be covered by the AUV.

AUVs which are connecting at the working place to a supply line and operated as ROV are designated as hybrid-ROV (HROV).

The special conditions for such a case of application will be defined by the Society case by case.