Product profile
Sonobot 5
EvoLogics Sonobot 5 is a survey USV for hydrography, inspection, environmental monitoring and search and rescue. It operates for up to nine hours at 0.5–2...
Facts
- Company
- EvoLogics
- Product type
- usv
- Status
- commercial
- Primary capability
- autonomous hydrographic survey
- Website
- https://www.evologics.com/autonomous-vehicle/sonobot-5-usv
About Sonobot 5
EvoLogics Sonobot 5 is a survey USV for hydrography, inspection, environmental monitoring and search and rescue. It operates for up to nine hours at 0.5–2 m/s with IP68 protection, sonar payloads and manual, map-based or autopilot control.
Market context
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Summary
Type: Survey USV
Core: Sonobot 5
Function: Waterway surveys
Audience: Survey teams
Specifications
- communications
- 2.4 GHz mesh WiFi; redundant 868 MHz radio (915 MHz optional)
- control_modes
- Manual, map-based navigation and autonomous autopilot
- draught_mm
- 120 mm propeller over keel line mm
- endurance_h
- Up to 9 h h
- height_mm
- 810 mm / 690 mm in swim mode mm
- hull_type
- Catamaran
- ingress_protection
- IP68
- length_mm
- 1,291 mm mm
- mass_kg
- 24–33 kg kg
- operating_conditions
- Up to 5 Bft Bft
- positioning
- GNSS, DGPS, RTK GNSS or optional total station
- radio_range
- 800 m omni; 1.5 km directional; 2+ km optional StreamCaster
- rtk_accuracy
- Horizontal 0.8 cm + 1 ppm; vertical 1.5 cm + 1 ppm
- sensor_configurations
- Single-beam, side-scan, multibeam and forward-looking sonar; visual and AI options
- speed_mps
- 0.5–2 m/s m/s
- transport_configuration
- Two boxes; tool-less assembly/disassembly
- width_mm
- 954 mm mm
- working_region_km
- More than 30 km at 1 m/s km
Operations
- Environment
- inland waters, coastal waters
- Primary user
- hydrographic surveyors, infrastructure inspectors, research and response teams
- Role
- survey, inspection, monitoring, diver and AUV support
- Interaction model
- supervised autonomy, map-based autopilot, manual remote control
- Mobility class
- catamaran uncrewed surface vessel
- Product detail
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