AUV Marketthe systems for unique conditions and objectives. When your could extend operations to at a reasonable risk and of being are 1000 miles off the coast of Australia the most ef? cient way successful.to do that was to augment their team. Essentially the question was “we have a vehicle out there, there are depths beyond its depth rating, can we press it?” So can you summarize the support that Blue? n We’ve gotten this same question on every vehicle we have has provided? ever built. We gave them guidance that they could run it down to 5000 meters, which they have done successfully. The support we provided during the search effort is in line with what you would expect from a manufacturer with While we realize the mission to ? nd MH370 is a global ? eet of AUVs. The ? rst thing was to provide some still in the beginning and to date rather short additional spare parts to support extended operations. Second, in duration, but can you give us any “lessons we provided advice on ways to operate the vehicle given the learned” or walkaways at this point?unknown bathymetry and conditions. Clearly this bene? tted the search when the bathymetry turned out to be incorrect and We are pleased with the performance of the vehicle to deeper than the system’s 4500 meter depth rating. So the ques- date; we have a single vehicle out there running back-to-back tion came back from Phoenix: ‘can we extend the operating missions. There are some things that we see can be evolved range?’ given this type of mission, but overall I’m pretty happy with We analyzed the engineering data and we provided guidance the production of that vehicle.to Phoenix and the Navy to the depth we thought that they Blue? n Robotics – A Battelle CompanyAs the AUV market has matured and grown, so has Blue? n Robotics - A Battelle Company. Today the company employs nearly 200, and has moved into a state-of-the-art facility.May 201422 MTRMTR #4 (18-33).indd 22 MTR #4 (18-33).indd 22 5/12/2014 10:47:30 AM5/12/2014 10:47:30 AM