Autonomous Inspection

Freedom™ Autonomous Underwater Vehicle

Transforming subsea operations with intelligent data gathering.

The Freedom™ Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) is the most advanced, resident-capable underwater robotic solution available today. It offers the data resolution and completeness of coverage in a single pass usually only obtainable using an ROV, but with the speed and mission efficiency of a traditional AUV.

Intervention Tasks

Reduces HSE Risks

Vessel

Reduces Vessel Days

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Reduces CO2 Emissions

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Reduces Offshore Personnel

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AUV Speed.

The Freedom™ AUV delivers vessel-supported rapid, true single pass pipeline, flowline, and umbilical inspections.

Faster Than Traditional AUVs and ROVs

A traditional AUV may require two to three passes over the same pipeline to collect the data Freedom can collect in a single pass.

Quick recognition of subsea anomalies

Anomaly recognition of free-spans, burials, and crossing can trigger sub-missions for close inspection and data gathering, avoiding subsequent campaigns after the initial survey.

Increased Flexibility

High Resolution Data

Freedom precisely tracks the asset allowing for close proximity inspection as low as 3-5m altitude using next generation sensors and cameras, providing detailed, data-driven models to support accurate decision making.

Weather Resilient

With over-the-side cage recovery from a vessel or stationed on a resident subsea docking station, Freedom can work in harsh environmental conditions.

Feature-Based Navigation

Freedom’s proprietary software, COMPASS, provides onboard analysis of sonar and computer vision data to support close proximity inspection, touch-free proximity cathodic protection measurement, and hydrocarbon leak detection.

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Horizontal, Vessel-Based Docking

For standard vessel-deployed and accompanied operations, Freedom can autonomously locate, orientate around, align, and latch within a docking station suspended from the vessel.

A Fully Resident Approach

Resident-Capable

Freedom’s capability to locate, orientate, and horizontally dock with a subsea docking station is a vital component to enable Field of the Future operations. Work can be performed in more challenging weather conditions and for longer continuous durations than traditional ROVs and AUVs by supporting the ability to change tools, recharge, and data offload without the vehicle being recovered to surface.

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