New Delhi [India], November 15 (ANI): A new generation of Man-portable Autonomous Underwater Vehicles ( MP-AUV s) has been successfully developed by the Naval Science and Technological Laboratory (NSTL), Visakhapatnam , of the Defence Research and Development Organisation ( DRDO ) for mine countermeasure missions, the Ministry of Defence said in a release.

The system comprises multiple AUVs equipped with Side Scan Sonar and Underwater cameras as primary payloads for real-time detection & classification of Mine-Like Objects. The onboard deep learning based target recognition algorithms enable autonomous classification, significantly reducing operator workload and mission time.

Additionally, a robust underwater acoustic communication has been integrated to facilitate inter-AUV

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