Diver Navigation System Goes into Full Production with Scooter Configuration
EvoLogics announced on Wednesday, September 20, that its diver navigation system has entered full-scale production after successful field tests and design optimization throughout 2024. First launched at Oceanology International London in March 2024, EvoLogics' system has since undergone modifications to its modem tracker, mount accessories, transport case, usability features and maintenance between dive missions to improve usability and maintenance between missions.
This platform streamlines complex underwater operations involving multiple team members, such as search and rescue, salvage, recovery and cleanup missions. Divers use compact battery-powered acoustic modems worn on their backs with tablet displays that visualize real-time diver positions and enable two-way communication with surface supervision teams. It supports pre-mission configuration as well as real-time waypoint configuration for coordinated operations.
EvoLogics has built on this success to offer divers a specialized scooter configuration tailored for dive propulsion vehicles (DPVs). This variant meets professional divers' demands for extended operational range, reduced physical effort, and enhanced control in challenging underwater environments - expanding the system's applicability across numerous mission profiles.
Sonobot 5 USBL Integration Expands Operational Flexibility
EvoLogics recently unveiled and tested its Sonobot 5 prototype featuring a submersible USBL antenna, with market release anticipated by 2025. The unmanned surface vehicle features a sleek USBL modem mounted to an arm controlled by software for lift/submersion operation as required by operational needs.
The USBL-equipped Sonobot 5 enhances diver navigation systems by eliminating stationary surface buoys, giving greater operational flexibility and mobility. The vehicle can follow diver groups between areas of interest without manual repositioning of surface nodes; streamlining mission execution. EvoLogics' earlier experience with such Sonobot platforms from 2015-2017 demonstrated capabilities such as LBL baseline calibration and mobile relay operations for autonomous underwater vehicle swarms.
Sonobot 5 with USBL not only supports divers, but can also act as an autonomous mobile surface link for data-collection underwater vehicles like EvoLogics' Quadroin AUVs to enable real-time tracking and communication with subsea assets operating at greater depths across target survey areas.
Industry Engagement and 2025 Outlook.
EvoLogics showed off its latest innovations at Ocean Business 2025 in Southampton, United Kingdom, where daily live demonstrations of Sonobot USVs and Quadroin AUV capabilities took place daily. This exhibition highlighted EvoLogics' integrated approach to underwater communication, positioning, robotics and artificial intelligence solutions tailored to meet demanding scientific and industrial applications.
EvoLogics' 2025 product roadmap illustrates its dedication to further advancing the underwater Internet of Things through intelligent cooperation between vehicles and sensors. EvoLogics relies on its S2C spread-spectrum communication technology combining cutting-edge engineering with bionic principles derived from dolphin communication patterns to deliver reliable subsea solutions across various operational domains.