Atlas Elektronik Gmbh

Altas Elektronik Gmbh

Jörg Kalwa

Sven-Christian Hesse

Ralf Richter

Heinz Habisch

Peter Stelke

Andreas Bensel

The invention relates to a protective housing for a propeller of a submarine vehicle. The invention also relates to a connection system for a propeller-driven submarine vehicle with a submarine cable and such a protective housing. The invention further relates to the use of a protective housing for a propeller of a submarine vehicle for receiving a strain relief connection for a connecting cable. The invention enables low-cost communication between a propeller-driven submarine vehicle and a support platform by means of a connecting cable which is hydrodynamically streamlined and ensures strain-relief for the connecting cable. The connecting cable is fixed to the periphery of the protective housing, outside the working space of the propeller located on a propeller axis, and a strain-relief cable-holding fixture is arranged for a connecting cable on the submarine vehicle.

Protective housing for a propeller of a submarine vehicle, connection system with a connecting cable and the use of such protective housing for incorporating a connecting cable

A coupling head, coupled to an autonomous underwater vehiclevia a rendezvous headthat is connectable to or part of the underwater vehicle. The coupling headhas an alignment stabilizing arrangementfor stabilizing its alignment and position in the water below the water surface. The invention further relates to a coupling devicehaving the coupling headand having a cablewhich is detachably connectable, mechanically, electrically and in a signal-connecting manner, to the coupling head, and to a rendezvous devicehaving the rendezvous head. The underwater vehiclehas the rendezvous headand/or the rendezvous device, and a coupling system, which comprises at least the coupling and rendezvous heads. The invention further relates to a coupling methodand a deployment methodof an autonomous underwater vehiclewhich includes the coupling method

Coupling head, coupling device with coupling head, rendezvous head couplable thereto, rendezvous device with rendezvous head and underwater vehicle therewith, coupling system, coupling method and deployment method for an underwater vehicle

The invention relates to an unmanned underwater vehicle having at least one sensor unit () which can be used to acquire sensor information () relating to objects in the area surrounding the underwater vehicle (). The invention also relates to a method for operating the unmanned underwater vehicle (). In order to sense structures and contours of objects under water as quickly and accurately as possible, the invention provides for the at least one sensor unit () to be arranged such that it can be moved in a tangential direction () of the underwater vehicle, that is to say tangentially with respect to the longitudinal axis () of the underwater vehicle () or an axis running parallel to the longitudinal axis, and can be positioned in the circumferential direction () by a positioning device () to which the sensor information () can be specified.

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Weyhe, Germany

Jörg Kalwa