International Conference KNOWLEDGE-BASED ORGANIZATION Vol. XXI No 3 2015 UNMANNED SURFACE AND UNDERSEA VEHICLES: CAPABILITIES AND POTENTIAL Vasile DOBREF, Octavian TĂRĂBUŢĂ, Cătălin-Paul CLINCI “Mircea cel Bătrân” Naval Academy, Constanţa, Romania, relatiipublice@anmb.ro Abstract: This paper proposes a new technological solution for the sea observation using an Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) or Unmanned Undersea Vehicles (UUV). The term USV refers to any vehicle that operates on the surface of the water without a crew. USVs have the potential, and in some cases the demonstrated ability, to reduce risk to manned forces, provide the necessary force multiplication to accomplish military missions, perform tasks which manned vehicles cannot, and do so in a way that is affordable for the navy. In this paper we examine the use of unmanned vehicles (USV and UUV) which can replace the manned sea patrol system with additional sensors and high performance communication systems in future. Keywords: unmanned surface vehicle, unmanned undersea vehicles, robotics, navigation 1. Introduction For future naval forces the unmanned vehicles are critical components. In our days significant research and development has been performed on unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) and unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs). Unmanned robots have critical role during the investigation of the sea. The aim of this project is designing a robot which is capable of navigation on a given pathway, equipped with the capabilities of sending images, controlled with wireless communication. This USV navigates, avoids obstacles, using a camera, sensors for distance, humidity and temperature, wireless communications. All the hardware devices are descriptions. 2. Description of USV USV is based on high-speed small craft design and unmanned systems technology to provide a highly capable unmanned surface vehicle designed for multiple The project " Grozavul " is a USV model built in order to perform certain tasks such as research , observation , transmission of real-time information (images or video), lengths and distances, atmospheric parameters: temperature, humidity, pressure. The environment of the world today Figure 1 Project “Grozavul” We used as a model the maritime rescue tug with the same name, and its features are: -Displacement (to): 3600 (full load ) missions. DOI: 10.1515/kbo-2015-0114 © 2015. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License. 673