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Capability is often lost in conversation. The real gaps appear where engineers, operators and human specialists think they're aligned but aren't. 42 is only the right answer if we're asking the same q …Speakers
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Working from a viewpoint of 'what use cases can benefit most from introduction of a completely uncrewed medium-large ship?' We focused on three core use cases of Military Data Gathering, Seabed Warfar …Speakers
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Keywords: Interferometric, Side Scan Sonar, Bathymetry, micro-AUV, scientific, industrial, military, beachcombing
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Achieving success in no-fail missions: Lessons from 4 continuous years supporting USN, USCG and NATO• The future of Maritime Domain Awareness is hybrid: crewed ships, uncrewed platforms, and advanced sensors working together. • Saildrone is in its fourth continuous year of providing battlespace awar …
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Addressing five principal challenges in underwater positioning including update rate, range errors, latency, gimbal lock, and sensor integration. Utilizing advanced sensor fusion with tightly coupled …
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An improved understanding of the use of software-in-the-loop digital twins for collaborative autonomy development, The use of simulation platforms for concepts of operations (CONOPs) development,
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A field-tested integration pattern for collaborative AUV ISR that reduces revisit time and operator burden while fitting current naval C2A verification/validation matrix commanders can use to accept a …
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The Smart Sonobuoy Threat Detection Network offers: Persistent Monitoring through a low-cost, energy-efficient, and cooperative sonobuoy network Hybrid and Modular Sensing Architecture by utilising a …Speakers
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Integrated Approach to Underwater Signal Processing Attendees will understand how AquaSignal combines pre-processing, denoising, classification, and novelty detection into a cohesive machine learning …Chairperson
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Strategic Planning of Naval Operations – Underwater Domain AwarenessUnderwater Domain Awareness (UDA) framework Effective Naval Deployments in the Tropical Waters Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) enabled Strategic Naval Planning High End AI enabled Data AnalyticsChairperson
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MAD is, and remains, an important ASW sensor, also in the fast evolving world of unmanned systems. REPMUS 2025 marked the first successful test of unmanned MAD using a VTOL UAV. Enabled by strong inte …Chairperson
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Agile Command and Adaptive Mission Planning Are Essential Environmental Factors Significantly Impact ASW Effectiveness Integrated Sensors and Forecasting Enable Tactical AdaptabilityChairperson
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How changes in the Arctic will affect submarine design What regulations are in place to govern defence activity in the Arctic Key areas of interest for developing technology to enhance operational eff …
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• Comparative evaluation of colour TV, polarimetric, neuromorphic, and SPAD sensors against baseline EO/IR modalities. • Defined use cases and representative maritime objects for structured evaluation …
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Advantages of using a modular blueprint for subsea robotics: common core, payload-agnostic interfaces, and software-defined autonomy. Benefits of leveraging rapid reconfiguration across operations and …
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Copper Nickel Chrome (CNC): The Non-Ferrous Alloy of Choice for Seawater-Wetted Submarine ComponentsChairperson
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• Demonstrates how digital twins and corrosion modelling can transform marine asset integrity management. • Presents a validated simulation workflow combining CFD and electrochemical modelling. • Offe …Chairperson
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Hierarchical Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Architecture: A high-level agent formulates strategy by selecting optimal low-level agents, which are specialized to execute evasive manoeuvres for diff …
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Noise reduction ensures stealth and comfort.3DEXPERIENCE Platform links design to simulation.Wave6 models full-spectrum acoustics/PowerFLOW captures flow-induced noise.
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-Challenges in Underwater Data Processing: Collecting and processing information from submarine sensors is difficult due to severe constraints in the underwater communication environment, specifically …
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Efficient Offline Reinforcement Training of Torpedo Countermeasure Policies via Decision TransformerOffline Data-Driven AI Policy Learning: Introducing an offline, data-driven approach that utilizes Decision Transformers to learn tactical policies directly from existing expert datasets, bypassing th …
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• Agents demonstrate collaborative behaviors coordinating across surface and subsurface platforms • Generative AI and open data accelerate development of simulation environment • Large language models …
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• Introduction of novel developements in high-power blue lasers at 450 nm, which enable long-range transmission in water. • Initial experiments and theoretical insights regarding future underwater def …
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XLUUV will be a highly capable ASW and Seabed Warfare platform when commensurate next generation sonar is available Realising many sonar functions with a single set of arrays makes such a system cost …Chairperson
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Attendees will gain practical insight into how engineering assurance can be applied early in underwater programmes to support rapid and spiral development while reducing delivery risk. The session wil …Speakers
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Fundamentals of Synthetic Aperture Sonar, Displaced Phase Center Approximation, Multi-receiver architectures, Area Coverage RateSpeakers
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• Alignment of naval EO assurance with AMLAS to enable trusted ML-based autonomy. • Progressive assurance tightening across autonomy levels, reflecting the shift from human-in-the-loop to human-on-the …
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Overview of how the adoption of uncrewed systems by the Royal Australian Navy can increase its undersea surveillance coverage in the Indo-Pacific. Assessment of the value for money of hybrid naval fle …Chairperson
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Investigating utilization of AI & ML for underwater vehicle domain engineering challenges to improve design, modeling, and navigation in GPS-denied environment Fusing computational model and real miss …Chairperson
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24-h anchored watch systems outperform non-24-h rotations — they support longer, more consolidated sleep and reduce circadian misalignment. Extended off-watch periods are optimal — they provide restor …
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Generative Adversarial Networks are a highly powerful tool in machine learning and can be used to create large quantities of data. GANs have been used to create audio data in other disciplines, such a …Chairperson
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Increasing interest in measuring the underwater radiated noise from the global fleet due to noise pollution is driving the development of acoustic tech URN measurement captures an acoustic signature T …
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acoustic localization, weapon accuracy, weapon calibration, asynchronous localization algorithmsSpeakers
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a- Some operational ship performances rely on some manual manoeuvring of equipment. b- Norms and standards to guarantee manoeuvrability hardly take ship dynamic environment in account. c- Studies show …Speakers
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Strategic Collaboration: Saab and AMEXCI have partnered to innovate and industrialize Additive Manufacturing for undersea defence, aiming to co-opt new ideas and enable scalable production. Accelerate …ChairpersonSpeakers
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Why current investment models delay operational adoption of undersea autonomyEvidence that milestone-driven funding reduces risk and accelerates deliveryHow parallelised collaboration between industry …
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There are lessons learnt and good practice in terms of design and evaluation from the design of complex automation that apply to the design and evaluation of AI based Human Machine Teams. If going to …
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By consideration of crew needs throughout the life-cycle significant improvements can be made to ensure their wellbeing and enhance their performance. These improvements don't have to be expensive, or …Speakers
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Teaming crewed and uncrewed vehicles has considerable challenges in C3 to perform a full ASW 'kill chain' 2. These challenges are solvable given some thought about integration and communications 3. Qi …Speakers
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Latest Concept of Operations for operationalising persistent undersea surveillance Challenges (security) and opportunities (continual capability enhancement) of delivering the capability The technolog …Chairperson
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• This multi disciplinary research contributes to academics, industry and naval applications by establishing Monte Carlo Simulation (MCS) as a robust, scalable and adaptable decision support system to …ChairpersonSpeakers
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PI-based Architecture for Weapon Waypoint Planning: This study focuses on a key challenge in submarine-launched weapons by introducing Permutation-Invariant (PI) reinforcement learning architectures t …
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• Offshore wind installations can enhance naval capabilities by enabling energy-independent forward-operating bases at sea, improving endurance and autonomy of naval assets. • Subsea energy storage sy …
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Critical Infrastructure Protection, Long distance array based on fiber only, High performance fiberoptic hydrophones
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Differentiation from existing technology: Quantum magnetometers and gravimeters offer exceptional sensitivity in an unprecedented compact, rugged form factor, enabling performance unattainable with co …Chairperson
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better understanding of underwater gliders Understand key drivers in persistent maritime surveillance. Better appreciation of interoperability challenges in ASW barrier operations. Better understandin …Speakers
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-GNSS as a foundational enabler for autonomy in marine systems, including UUVs, ASVs, and swarm platforms. -The critical role in navigation of accurate and resilient GNSS positioning across a broad ra …
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Securing the Seabed Together-Leveraging Partnerships for Critical Undersea Infrastructure ProtectionLessons learned from recent examples of public, private, and military teams working together to protect critical undersea infrastructure. Case studies of collaborative technology trials and exercises …
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• Sensor fusion and multi-modal navigation improve positional awareness in GPS-denied environments. • Dead Reckoning, USBL, DVL, and ROV GPS integration supports stable navigation and operational func …Speakers
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Unmmaned unmanned teaming for undersea warfareA unique CONOPS (concept of operations) for UDTThe scalability effect of the use of unmanned systemsSpecial needs of the maritime environment for unmanned …
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• When it comes to submarine acquisition, ‘Truly Off-The-Shelf' and ‘Truly Bespoke' options seldom if ever exist. • It would be better for acquisition programmes to think in terms of ‘Made-To Measure' …ChairpersonSpeakers
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Self-supervised learning and clustering application to enable compact dataset summarization. Capturing both visual and spatial features from georeferenced sonar imagery using location-guided autoencod …
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Integration of multidisciplinary assets and technologies is pivotal to achieving scalable and flexible undersea domain awareness. A resilient, multilayered communications network—including optical und …
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Development of unmanned underwater wingmen to support the manned submarine operations in the future. Retrofitting existing platforms or integrating unmanned vehicle launch and recovery systems into ne …
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The Strategic Need for Affordable Active Sonar: Attendees will understand why the rise of small, silent UUVs makes passive surveillance obsolete and why the widespread deployment of affordable, low-po …Chairperson
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(1) Aerial drone magnetics offer unique insight into threats beneath the sea surface. (2) Aerial drone magnetics are less dependent of weather- and sea conditions as compared to AUVs and other airborn …
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Attendees will learn how towed underwater charging stations—deployed behind surface vessels—enable AUVs to refuel underwater much like fighter jets do mid‑air. The presentation highlights contactless …
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1-Understand the benefit to combine passive electrical finel sensing with acoustic to enhance underwater detection and classification 2-Realize that modern eelctronic architecture and signal processin …Chairperson
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Advances in non-acoustic sensor technologies Impact of Quantum & AI technologies on ASW Changes in environmental conditions that may force Submarines to operate differently. Fusion of traditional acou …
