Navigating the oceans and depths
Navigation, whether surface or subsea, forms the core of any marine operation. Whether you’re manoeuvring a ROV into position in a field of seabed sensors or directing a fleet of AUV’s through an offshore wind farm, reliable, accurate navigation is essential.
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Fortunately, navigation system expertise forms the core of our business even in the most challenging of marine environments. We have the technology that enables you to confidently navigate your vehicles and vessels of any size in, at any depth and even in GNSS denied locations. Many of our products work together to aid navigation but the core technology is outlined below.
SPRINT-Nav. All-in-one guidance and navigation. Guide, control and navigate your USVs, ROVs and AUVs faster and more efficiently with SPRINT-Nav.
Combines our SPRINT inertial sensor, Syrinx DVL and high accuracy intelligent pressure sensor in a single housing. Performance levels to suit any task. Tightly integrates raw acoustic, Doppler and inertial data – unique to Sonardyne.
An all-in-one acoustic-inertial sensor that replaces the need for a separate DVL, pressure sensor and INS/AHRS saving you the cost, cabling and integration challenges that come with different sensors from different vendors. SPRINT-Nav delivers class-leading performance as good as a fraction of a metre over many kilometres travelled. It’s now joined by SPRINT-Nav Mini, the perfect instrument for Inspection class ROV control and USVs.
Titanium housed for deep ROV missions. Outputs altitude, depth, orientation and velocity. Configure and control using a Web UI
Syrinx DVL – Doppler Velocity Log with integrated ADCP. Whilst it’s integrated as part of SPRINT-Nav, Syrinx is also available as a standalone DVL or ADCP. It maintains bottom lock at up to 230 m, support dual outputs and is 4,000 m rated as standard.
Syrinx’s adaptive bottom lock provides reliable vehicle navigation over different seabed types and it also combines high altitude and high resolution with 400 kHz and 600 kHz versions giving you further adaptability for your operations.
SPRINT. Flexible, cost-effective and easy to use subsea navigation. Get unprecedented levels of performance and a single offering for ROV guidance and survey. SPRINT makes optimal use of acoustic aiding data from acoustic USBL, LBL, Doppler Velocity Log (DVL) and pressure sensors.
It makes optimal use of acoustic aiding data from Ultra-Short BaseLine (USBL) and Long BaseLine (LBL) positioning and other sensors such as Doppler Velocity Log (DVL) and pressure sensors. This improves position accuracy, precision, reliability and integrity while reducing operational time and vessel costs. The system extends the operating limits of your vessel’s USBL (vendor independent) and can dramatically improve the operational efficiency of LBL by enabling sparse seabed transponder arrays.
Fusion 2 is our most powerful, most configurable and most efficient navigation and positioning software ever. One system from which you can control all of your subsea Long BaseLine (LBL), Sparse LBL and SPRINT Inertial Navigation System (INS) projects.
• Our fastest, most capable survey and construction software system yet
• A single solution for your LBL and aided SPRINT INS projects
• Less vessel hardware and less interfaces
• Intuitive and customisable user interface
• Supports real-time SLAM calibration of sparse LBL arrays
• Optimised for new 6G+ and Wideband 3
SPRINT-Nav
Integrates a full Syrinx 400 kHz or 600 kHz DVL, pressure sensor and SPRINT acoustically-aided INS. Supports complex survey and navigation missions using ROVs and AUVs.
• DVL frequency 600 kHz or 400 kHz
• Dimensions 240 x 395 mm
• Depth rating 4,000/6,000 m
• Maximum altitude 175 m or 230 m
• Telegrams Industry standard
SPRINT-Nav Mini
Three ROV instruments in one; a 500 kHz Syrinx-derived DVL, hybrid AHRS and depth sensor. Pre-calibrated from the factory and quick to mobilise.
• DVL frequency 500 KHz
• Dimensions 149 x 213 mm
• Depth rating 300/4,000 m
• Maximum altitude 200 m
• Telegrams Industry standard
Syrinx DVL – Doppler Velocity Log with integrated ADCP
Use Syrinx as a standalone DVL or ADCP, as part of an integrated navigation system, or perform all these functions at once. It maintains bottom lock at up to 230 m, support dual outputs and is 4,000 m rated as standard.
• Combines high altitude and high resolution with 400 kHz and 600 kHz versions;
• Adaptive bottom lock provides reliable vehicle navigation over different seabed types
• ADCP mode with dedicated software; Echo Observer for Syrinx
• 4,000 m, 6,000 m and OEM versions
• Available as an integrated DVL-INS solution; SPRINT-Nav
SPRINT
SPRINT is an acoustically aided subsea inertial navigation system for ROV, towed platforms and AUVs.
Inertial navigation is inherently self-contained, robust with very good short term accuracy but can drift over time. Therefore, the INS is aided with complementary acoustic positioning to provide long term accuracy and robustness. The additional integrity offered by inertial integration significantly reduces operational delays during periods of challenging subsea acoustic conditions such as aeration and noise. The precision and update rate of the output allows greater subsea vehicle control and is suitable for ROV station keeping. It is available in three variations to suit any of your operations.
At a glance
• Popular for navigating ROVs and AUVs
• Speeds up operations – saves you time
• Small, lightweight and easy to install
• Track record spanning more than10 years
• Range of performance levels to suit your task; 300, 500, 700
• Integrated DVL (SPRINT-Nav) options available
SPRINT 300
The lowest cost subsea INS available with less than 0.1° Sec Lat Heading. Supports dual ROV and Survey use and standalone ROV guidance. Also provides mid-water station keeping with vendor independent USBL aiding.
SPRINT 500
Supports tightly integrated sparse LBL range aiding from Sonardyne 6G transponders, Perfectly suited to demanding multibeam survey operations with automatic, proven pressure and swell compensation.
SPRINT 700
One of the highest performance INS systems available under dual use export control. With tight integration to Sonardyne acoustics, it supports the most demanding subsea survey tasks such as mobile laser mapping and acoustic inertial metrology.
Fusion 2
With Fusion 2, gone is the need to operate two independent software and hardware systems to control your 6G LBL and SPRINT INS. Fusion 2 does it all in a single interface, designed from the ground up with intuitive workflows so there’s less to learn. It also means reduced set-up time, reduced interfacing and reduced onboard hardware.
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