Polish USV ‘EDREDON’ and non-European USV: a comparative sketch

Abstract

Comparative sketch of polish Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) 'EDREDON' and non-European USV constructions are presented. Review of outside Europe USV is given. USV classification and simplified comparison of EDREDON with similar non-European USV are listed. The comparison of non-European USV's with USV 'EDREDON' was aimed to show how the product developed in Poland is presented on the background of USV world leaders.

Survey on the Developments of Unmanned Marine Vehicles: Intelligence and Cooperation

“…The unmanned surface vehicle USV ‘EDREDON’ was built in Poland [ 66 ]. The USV was developed by researchers from the Naval Academy in Gdynia and Gdansk University of Technology as a result of the research project ‘Unmanned swimming platforms for the protection of national sea services’.…”

Doppler‐based navigation for mobile protection system of strategic maritime facilities in GNSS jamming and spoofing conditions

“…the signal acquisition time in the positioning process is equal to T A = 10 s; constant speed of the USV is v = 15 m/s ≃ 29.16 knots, i.e. the maximum speed for the USV EDREDON [6, 7] (the maximum speed for most USVs is in the range 20–48 knots [7]); transmitting antennas of the RBs are located at high masts that provide LOS/OLOS propagation conditions between the RBs and USV receiver and an additive white Gaussian noise channel with a signal‐to‐noise ratio (SNR) SNR > −5 dB for the whole trajectory of the USV motion. Considering the fact that the frequency stability of the signal source generator significantly influences on the positioning accuracy in the frequency‐based location methods [64], we provide high stability of the used RB generators using a rubidium or cesium frequency standard [41]. Additionally, one of the RBs might measure instantaneous fluctuations of the carrier frequencies of the individual RB signals and transmit this data to the USV in a dedicated channel.…”

“…The importance of this problem is contributed by the development of research works on the construction of the USV, which are implemented in all economically developed countries. A comparison of exemplary and practically already worked out constructions such as Sea Fox MkI/MkII (USA), Interceptor (USA/Israel), SARPAL (Canada), Barracuda (Canada), Sentinel (USA), is presented in [5, 6] and a detailed description of the Polish solution called EDREDON is contained in [7].…”