ANCC + SOLUS
Resilient Mission Autonomy for Subsea Systems
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Metron ANCC (Autonomy, Navigation, Command, and Control) + Cellula Solus UUVs provide the mix of autonomy, perception, adaptive planning, energy, and payload capacity to carry out UUV missions at relevant operational ranges and for relevant operational durations without obligating critical manned platforms.
Missions and Applications
- Infrastructure defense & clearance
- Payload delivery on the seafloor and in volume
- Persistent surveillance
- Asset integrity inspection
- ASW
- MCM
SYSTEMS – AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES
SOLUS-LR
Solus-LR is a long-range hydrogen fuel cell-powered Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) with an operational range greater than 2000 km, designed for port-to-port missions.
SOLUS-XR
Solus-XR is Cellula’s next generation, fuel cell powered XLUUV platform, designed for port to port, lightly supervised surveillance missions over 5000 km ranges.
Capabilities
- Extreme endurance
- Extremely long reach
- Lower cost assets
- Lower logistic burdens
- Limited or no surface expressions
ANCC SOFTWARE – RESILIENT MISSION AUTONOMY
Metron’s autonomy provides executive-level autonomous control with a priori and locally sensed environmental and vehicle models and data to enable extrospective and introspective decision-making, customizable to any vehicle platform in all operational domains.
Metron’s autonomy provides executive-level autonomous control with a priori and locally sensed environmental and vehicle models and data to enable extrospective and introspective decision-making, customizable to any vehicle platform in all operational domains.
WATCHMAN
- Comprehensively tracks adversary contracts / tracks
- Monitors vehicle system, sub-system and payload health
SPHERE
- Operator intent-driven behaviors (dive, transit, loiter, search, survey, anchoring, payload operations, etc.)
- Payload management
- Mission adaptation based on detections, patterns, and platform status
- Sensor deployment based on in-situ environmental conditions and threats
WORLD MODEL
- Stores and manages pre-loaded and in‑situ sensed environmental data:
- Current, salinity, turbidity, conductivity, temperature, depth
- Bathymetry, obstacles/hazards, keep-in/ keep-out areas
POWER MANAGEMENT
- Controls power relays based on mission phase
- Commands relays temporally and sequentially to maintain power bus
HELMSMAN
- Monitors command execution, vehicle navigation and mission progress against predicted success based on current environment and pre-mission sim results
- Issues commands to front seat driver via a custom vehicle bridge
HEALTH MANAGEMENT
- Continuous system monitoring
- Fault diagnosis and mitigation
- Degradation predictive modeling
- Plant configuration
ADAPTIVE PLANNING
- On Board real-time mission (re)planning for obstacle avoidance, environmental changes, platform health, and energy consumption
VEHICLE BRIDGE
- Custom designed to communicate with a specific platform, enables ANCC to exchange information with a vehicle based on hits ICD
Customizations
Sensors
- FLS, INS, DVL, ADCP, SAS, SSS, MBES, LBL, USBL, and more
Communications
- VLF, ACOMM, RF, Tethered
Payloads
- Long-range sensing, environmental, manipulators, kinetic
Power Modes
- Very Low Power Mode, Hibernate
Features
- Operator intent-driven, risk aware, adaptive autonomy
- Payload management
- Mission adaptation based on detections, patterns, and platform status
- Sensor deployment based on in-situ environmental conditions and threats
Core Capabilities
Our Expertise
Autonomy
Metron designs and develops custom Resilient Mission Autonomy™ software that fuses fault detection, diagnosis, prognosis and mitigation with mission requirements, priorities, and platform capabilities.
Explore AutonomyAnalytics
Metron's analytics team develops tools to process massive amounts of data, helping our client make sense of their numbers.
Explore AnalyticsDecision Support
Metron builds decision-support systems that help operators make the best possible decision even in chaotic situations with ambiguous information.
Explore Decision SupportWe can help determine if ANCC + Solus is right for your application