Product profile
HUGIN AUV
HUGIN is Kongsberg Discovery's family of commercial autonomous underwater vehicles for deep-water survey, mapping and inspection. The modular AUV architect...
Facts
- Company
- KONGSBERG
- Product type
- auv
- Status
- commercial
- Primary capability
- seabed_mapping
- Website
- https://www.kongsberg.com/discovery/autonomous-and-uncrewed-solutions/auv/hugin/
About HUGIN AUV
HUGIN is Kongsberg Discovery's family of commercial autonomous underwater vehicles for deep-water survey, mapping and inspection. The modular AUV architecture supports swappable batteries, removable storage, configurable payloads and supervised or fully autonomous missions.
Market context
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Summary
Type: Autonomous underwater vehicle
Core: Deep-water survey AUV family
Function: Executes long-duration seabed mapping and subsea inspection missions with configurable payloads
Audience: Hydrographic survey teams, offshore operators, researchers and defence users
Specifications
- cruise_speed_knots
- 4 kn
- depth_ratings_m
- Family variants rated to 3000, 4500 or 6000 m
- maximum_endurance_h
- Up to 100 hours at 4 knots h
- navigation
- AINS navigation with terrain following and seabed-relative mission control
- operation_modes
- Supervised, semi-autonomous and autonomous operation
- payloads
- Configurable survey and inspection sensor payloads with swappable batteries and removable storage
- turning_radius_m
- 15 m
Operations
- Environment
- offshore_waters, deep_ocean, subsea_survey
- Primary user
- hydrographic_survey_teams, offshore_energy_operators, marine_research_teams, defence_operators
- Role
- seabed_mapping, hydrographic_survey, underwater_inspection, marine_data_collection
- Interaction model
- autonomous_mission_execution, supervised_autonomy, payload_integration, underwater_navigation
- Mobility class
- large_auv, untethered_underwater_robot
- Product detail
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Research, Articles and recent verified events
- Fire Point expands European integration programme for Freyja — 2026-08-04
- KONGSBERG and Oceaneering selected for DIU CAMP XLUUV design — 2026-07-15
- KONGSBERG wins international critical-infrastructure protection contract — 2026-07-02
- DevDroid and KONGSBERG sign robotic combat systems MoU — 2026-06-30
- KONGSBERG and DRASS announce strategic partnership for underwater autonomy — 2026-06-08
- KONGSBERG completes Kongsberg Maritime demerger — 2026-04-23
- Kongsberg-designed Reach Remote 1 USV delivered — 2025-01-16
- Argeo formally signs contracts for three KONGSBERG HUGIN AUVs — 2023-11-13