ROV/AUV Eely

Eely is AUR-Lab's snake robot from Eelume.

She can be operated as an ROV through a 400m long optical fiber umbilical. The vehicle is over 6 m long and can have up to 4 joints allowing the relative position of 5 different sections or modules. Therefore, the vehicle can get into different configurations. This has been used, for example to place the vehicle in a U-shape, and lights and cameras placed along the body to have a unique field of lighting and vaious camera angles on the same objective and at the same time. Eely is depth rated to 500 m.

Eely has a forward looking imaging sonar + camera + lights module for the front. 

She has also a Underwater Hyperspectrail Imaging (UHI from Ecotone) module, with a set of 4 collimated lights looking down, and a camera+light that can be pointed forward. Note that this module is depth rated to 200m

A norbit STX multibeam sonar is placed in the middle of the vehicle and can be used for mapping.

Its embedded Kongsberg cnode helps with underwater positioning when a USBL or LBL is available.

Other sensors omboard include salinity, sound of speed and temperature. 

It has up to three cameras for navigation. one in the front with the FLS module, another looking backwards from the front that allows to see the tail of the vehicle. One more is placed in the middle of the vehicle facing down.

With its deployment basket, it can be set in the water from any place with a large enough crane. It is transported inside a 20ft kontainer to the deployment ship when necessary.