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The Falcon concept is the most successful underwater electric robotic system of its class and is proven in numerous intricate and demanding missions across many commercial, security and scientific sectors.

Equipped with Saab Seaeye's advanced iCON™ intelligent control system the Falcon provides exceptional vehicle control and diagnostic data as well as the ability to customise the pilot display and enable features such as station keeping.

The Falcon is lightweight, sized just one metre long and is rated to a depth of 300m.

Falcon Overview

• Surface Equipment contained in a single flight case.

• Includes a power supply unit, hand control unit, touch screen monitor, and wireless keyboard.

• Provides power and telemetry control through customisable screen layouts.

• Fibre Optic or Twisted Pair options for data and video transmission.

• Optional hand power cable spools and electric winches for vehicle deployment.

• Standard (300m) or deep-rated (1000m) ROV fitted with five thrusters, vehicle junction box, two LED lights, high resolution colour camera and a navigation pod providing vehicle auto depth and auto heading.

• Requires a single phase 110/230 VAC supply.

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The Falcon concept is the most successful underwater electric robotic system of its class and is proven in numerous intricate and demanding missions across many commercial, security and scientific sectors.

Equipped with Saab Seaeye's advanced iCON™ intelligent control system the Falcon-DR provides exceptional vehicle control and diagnostic data as well as the ability to customise the pilot display and enable features such as station keeping. 

The Falcon-DR is lightweight, sized just over one metre long and is rated to a depth of 1000m.

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Widely regarded as the leading observation and inspection vehicle within the oil and gas industry, the Tiger is also increasingly chosen by defence and marine science seeking increased capability in deep water. 

The Tiger is a very stable platform, with excellent manoeuvrability and performance in strong currents. Its open frame construction and generous payload offer the possibility of adding a wide range of tools and sensors as well as interchangeable tool skids.

The Tiger is available as a free-swimming vehicle down to depths of 450m. For greater depths down to 1000m, a Tether Management System (TMS) is available.

      Tiger Overview

• Surface Power Supply Unit and Surface Control Unit supplied as free standing units or fitted inside an air conditioned control container. An additional tooling power supply option is available.

• Surface Equipment includes Hand Control Unit, keyboard and a 19 inch colour monitor. An additional hand control unit is available for systems fitted with a manipulator skid.

• Standard Twisted Pair or Fibre Optic option used for data and video transmission. 

• Operated as a free swimming ROV with up to 450 m of umbilical. Optional Tether Management System (TMS) available for depths up to 1000 m.

• Additional deployment options include an electric winch for free swimming Tigers, a containerised system with winch and launch davit or an A Frame Launch and Recovery System (LARS) for ROVs equipped with a TMS.

• ROV rated to 1000 m fitted with four horizontal thrusters and one vertical thruster, electronics pod, two LED lights, a compass and a depth sensor for vehicle auto heading and auto depth. Auto altitude is available as an option when an altimeter is fitted.

• With a 32kg payload, a wide range of accessories can be added as required.

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Like the smaller Tiger, the Lynx is a leading observation and inspection vehicle used by the oil and gas industry especially for missions in water depths to 1,500m. 

The Lynx is fitted with two vertical and four horizontal thrusters making it a very stable platform with exceptional manoeuvrability. 

A wide range of tools and sensors are available as well as interchangeable tooling skids, which are powered by a dedicated tooling power supply unit.

The Lynx vehicle is available as a free swimmer or can operate in conjunction with a Type 8 Tether Management System (TMS).

Lynx Overview

• Surface Power Supply Unit and Surface Control Unit supplied as free standing units or fitted inside an air conditioned control container. An additional tooling power supply option is available.

• Surface Equipment includes Hand Control Unit, keyboard and a two 17 inch colour monitors. An additional hand control unit is available for systems fitted with a manipulator skid.

• Fibre Optic MUX with two live video channels for video transmission. Additional MUX option available.

• Operated as a free swimming ROV or in conjunction with a Type 8 Tether Management System (TMS) for depths up to 1500 m.

• Additional deployment options include an electric winch for free swimming Lynx or an A Frame Launch and Recovery System (LARS) for ROVs equipped with a TMS.

• ROV rated to 1500 m fitted with four horizontal thrusters and two vertical thrusters, electronics pod, four LED lights, two high resolution cameras, a compass and a depth sensor for vehicle auto heading and auto depth. Auto altitude is available as an option when an altimeter is fitted.

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The Cougar-XT Compact, depth rated to 300m, is the shallow water version of the Cougar-XT. An extremely powerful vehicle, the Cougar-XT Compact is ideal for inspection applications where strong tidal currents are experienced.

The smaller chassis significantly reduces drag which, in combination with a high-performance thruster arrangement and a small diameter tether, offers unrivalled performance for its size and class.

Cougar-XT Overview

• Surface Power Supply Unit and Surface Control Unit supplied as free standing units or fitted inside an air conditioned control container. An additional tooling power supply option is available.

• Surface Equipment includes Hand Control Unit, keyboard and two colour monitors. An additional hand control unit is available for systems fitted with a manipulator skid.

• Cabin Junction Box for connections between the surface and subsea. Including Twisted Pair connection for data and video transmission. Fibre Optic MUX upgrades available. 

• Operated as a free swimming ROV for depths up to 300 m.

• ROV rated to 300 m fitted with four horizontal thrusters and two vertical thrusters supplied with 500 Volts DC, electronics pod, four LED lights, two high resolution cameras, a compass and a depth sensor for vehicle auto heading and auto depth. Auto altitude is available as an option when an altimeter is fitted.

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Seaeye Cougar-XT, proven worldwide in demanding applications and recognised for its capability to operate effectively as a compact inspection, or light work ROV.

The system is now based on the Saab Seaeye’s iCON™ ecosystem which is an advanced distributed control and power distribution system that provides features such as advanced pilot aids and diagnostics to increase reliability and maintainability. The iCON™ ecosystem also provides a roadmap for further developments in automation and digitalisation including features such as remote telepresence control from shore via satellite or 4G communications, making the system future ready for current and further software advances.

The Seaeye Cougar-XTi leads a new generation of compact, highly flexible and extremely powerful electric ROVs that offer users the ability to undertake a wider range of demanding tasks at lower operating costs.

Cougar-XTi Overview

• The Cougar XTi is an intelligent iCON™ based Electric Vehicle. It is equipped with electric propulsion and compatible with industry standard sensors and hydraulic tooling as well as SAAB Seaeye’s current and future range of electric tooling solutions. It is highly powerful and versatile, making it capable of meeting extremely demanding applications.

• Pilot Control Units include touch screens running the graphical user interface (GUI) for vehicle power and control; system diagnostics including remote access for technical support; flight screen monitors that display data and video transmitted via Fibre Optic multiplexers and a CWDM, and a hand control unit for ROV.

• Additional surface equipment includes Tooling PSU, TMS foot pedals for the optional TMS, hand control units for tooling options, and various video display and recording options.

• Available as a free swimming ROV or in conjunction with a Type 8 Tether Management System (TMS).

• ROV rated to 2000 m fitted with four horizontal thrusters and two vertical thrusters supplied with 500 Volts DC, electronics pod, four LED lights, up to four high resolution cameras, a depth sensor, and a compass pod with integrated Magneto-resistive compass, accelerometers and gyros with pitch and roll outputs for vehicle auto heading and auto depth. Auto altitude is available as an option when an altimeter is fitted. Station Keeping is available as an option with a DVL fitted.

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The Leopard is an exceptionally powerful electric work class vehicle with a minimal 20ft x 8ft LARS footprint. It is fitted with up to 11 thrusters to provide a forward thrust of over 500kgf, has a 200kg payload and is controlled by Saab Seaeye's iCON™ intelligent control system. 

A large open payload within the chassis allows for the installation of specially designed sliding trays equipped with survey sensors or tooling options. A wide range of tooling skids make the Leopard a versatile system capable of performing a range of work tasks in even the harshest of environments at depths of up to 3000m.

Leopard Overview

•  The Leopard ROV is powered by a floor-standing high voltage, high frequency, power supply unit. Additional power supplies are available for tooling and TMS options. 

• Pilot Control Units include touch screens running the graphical user interface (GUI) for vehicle power and control; system diagnostics including remote access for technical support; flight screen monitors that display data and video transmitted via Fibre Optic multiplexers and a CWDM; surface control units for remote control of the PSUs and a hand control unit for ROV.

• Additional surface equipment options include TMS foot pedals for the optional TMS, tooling hand control units, video matrix switchers and recording systems. 

• Available as a free swimming ROV or in conjunction with a Type 8 Tether Management System (TMS) or a Top Hat TMS.

• ROV rated to up to 3000 m fitted with eight horizontal and three vertical SM9 thrusters supplied with 500 Volts DC, an electronics pod with fibre optic multiplexers and a CWDM, up to eight LED lights on four channels, cameras, a depth sensor, and a compass pod with integrated Magneto-resistive compass, accelerometers and gyros with pitch and roll outputs for vehicle auto heading, depth, pitch and roll. Auto altitude is available as an option when an altimeter is fitted as well as station keeping with a DVL fitted.

• Standard vehicle interfaces include connections for six cameras, twelve auxiliaries including one Ethernet connection, a copper signal core for CP reference, and a Transponder Trigger.

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The latest addition to Saab Seaeye’s underwater portfolio, the eWROV is a full-sized Class III B ROV system. Electrification is the key to improved performance, and the eWROV takes electric underwater vehicle capabilities to the next level.

The goal of carbon neutrality is a growing focus among the global community, and the eWROV has been designed with eco-responsibility in mind. As well as being more efficient, electric systems use limited oil, making the eWROV significantly more environmentally friendly than equivalent hydraulic work-class systems.

eWROV Overview

• Requiring less maintenance than ever, the eWROV system is inherently reliable.
   
• Electric thrusters are the key to electrifying WROVs; capable of generating 560 kgf, the eWROV’s power efficiency is far greater than hydraulic systems, with better acceleration, braking and reversal.
   
• Conventional high-voltage AC power transmission systems result in large, heavy subsea transformers on the ROV and PDUs on the surface. State of the art DC power transmission system enables significantly smaller and lighter units, both topside and subsea. It also allows the use of smaller diameter umbilicals and existing client-owned umbilicals.
   
• Electric manipulators are enablers for electrifying WROVs, and support the whole electrification ethos. They offer significant advantages over hydraulic alternatives, including more precise positioning with force feedback, increased dexterity, lower water weight and greater reliability – expanding the potential for more autonomous and resident applications. Featuring an advanced control system with an open interface, they allow both manual and automated operation. Highly accurate, modular electric joints enable enhanced arm control, path planning solutions and actuator re-use.
   
• The intelligent control of nodes (iCON) system is the backbone of the system. Pioneered by Saab Seaeye, iCON is an intelligent architecture of configurable hardware and software modules for creating smart underwater robotic solutions. iCON’s modular network of distributed devices and software provides real-time system control and feedback from the heart of every subsystem, making it ideally suited to ever more remote and autonomous operations. A complete common technology ecosystem, operation, training and maintenance is made simpler and more efficient with the expandable and future-proof iCON.

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The Sabertooth is a hybrid AUV/ROV capable of working in deep water either as an autonomous vehicle, or via a tether. Its power, tether-free operation and its 360° hovering manoeuvrability make the Sabertooth an ideal option for autonomous inspection or maintenance and repair tasks as well as offshore survey work. 

The Sabertooth is available as a single hull or double hull vehicle capable of operating at depths of 1200m or up to 3000m for the double hull vehicle. 

The double hull Sabertooth can be based at a remote location docking station ready to be launched on pre-programmed or man-controlled missions, including inspection, repair and maintenance, research tasks and environmental monitoring. Tooling packages can be stored at the docking station, batteries recharged and data transferred via satellite or cable to shore.

The vehicle can reside in the docking station for more than six months without maintenance, reducing the cost of surface vessels.

Sabertooth Single Hull Overview

• The surface equipment for the Sabertooth includes a surface control unit comprising a computer with the graphical interface software displayed on a monitor and a fibre optic receiver for communication between the surface and a tethered vehicle. 

• Additional operator equipment includes a keyboard and mouse.

• A WLAN Access Point with an antenna is used when the vehicle is in autonomous mode. 

• A battery charger fitted in a mobile case can recharge the vehicle at the surface. The unit provides a charging power of 3.3 kW (lower power when the input voltage is below 200 VAC) with an input power of 100-264 VAC (single phase). 

• An automated tension control winch is used in conjunction with a tether when working in manual mode.

• The operator's monitor runs the graphical user interface (GUI) for vehicle power and control, system diagnostics including remote access for technical support, create mission plans, and display data and video transmitted via the Fibre Optic receiver and tether for manual mode or via the WLAN antenna for autonomous mode. 

• The Sabertooth vehicles are rated to a depth of 1200 m. The Double Hull version also has a 3000 m depth rated option. Both vehicles are fitted with six thrusters; four SM4s and two SM9s on the Single Hull whereas there are six SM9s on the Double Hull. 

• The vehicles are fitted with an electronics pod with a Phins INS incorporated, LED lights, cameras, a depth sensor, sonar options, a Doppler Velocity Log (DVL), a Sound Velocity Profiler (SVP) and a communication unit.

• Advanced autopilot features are heading, depth, pitch, roll, stabilisation, altitude, station keeping, vector transition, obstacle avoidance and sonar target tracking.

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The Sabertooth is a hybrid AUV/ROV capable of working in deep water either as an autonomous vehicle or via a tether. Its power, tether-free operation and its 360° hovering manoeuvrability make the Sabertooth an ideal option for autonomous inspection or maintenance and repair tasks as well as offshore survey work. 

The Sabertooth is available as a single hull or double hull vehicle capable of operating at depths of 1200m or up to 3000m for the double hull vehicle.

The double hull Sabertooth can be based at a remote location docking station ready to be launched on pre-programmed or man-controlled missions, including inspection, repair and maintenance, research tasks and environmental monitoring. Tooling packages can be stored at the docking station, batteries recharged and data transferred via satellite or cable to shore. 

The vehicle can reside in the docking station for more than six months without maintenance, reducing the cost of surface vessels.

Sabertooth Double Hull Overview

• The surface equipment for the Sabertooth includes a surface control unit comprising a computer with the graphical interface software displayed on a monitor and a fibre optic receiver for communication between the surface and a tethered vehicle. 

• Additional operator equipment includes a keyboard and mouse.

• A WLAN Access Point with an antenna is used when the vehicle is in autonomous mode. 

• A battery charger fitted in a mobile case can recharge the vehicle at the surface. The unit provides a charging power of 3.3 kW (lower power when the input voltage is below 200 VAC) with an input power of 100-264 VAC (single phase). 

• An automated tension control winch is used in conjunction with a tether when working in manual mode.

• The operator's monitor runs the graphical user interface (GUI) for vehicle power and control, system diagnostics including remote access for technical support, create mission plans, and display data and video transmitted via the Fibre Optic receiver and tether for manual mode or via the WLAN antenna for autonomous mode. 

• The Sabertooth vehicles are rated to a depth of 1200 m. The Double Hull version also has a 3000 m depth rated option. Both vehicles are fitted with six thrusters; four SM4s and two SM9s on the Single Hull whereas there are six SM9s on the Double Hull. 

• The vehicles are fitted with an electronics pod with a Phins INS incorporated, LED lights, cameras, a depth sensor, sonar options, a Doppler Velocity Log (DVL), a Sound Velocity Profiler (SVP) and a communication unit.

• Advanced autopilot features are heading, depth, pitch, roll, stabilisation, altitude, station keeping, vector transition, obstacle avoidance and sonar target tracking.

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To fully realise the environmental and efficiency benefits of electric ROVs, Saab Seaeye has developed the eM1-7 electric manipulator, the world’s most advanced electric manipulator yet.

The Seaeye eM1-7 electric manipulator features an advanced control system allowing both manual and automated operation. Highly accurate, modular electric joints enable enhanced arm control, path planning solutions and actuator re-use. Lift capacity and range of motion exceed the eM1-7 manipulator's hydraulic equivalents, while its aluminium construction ensures high reliability.

Active power management
Active power management helps regulate demand and manages the regenerative power created with free-fall loads. Dual seven-function electric manipulator configurations provide maximum dexterity.

Significant advantages
The Seaeye eM1-7 offers significant advantages over hydraulic alternatives, including more precise positioning with force feedback, increased dexterity, lower water weight and greater reliability - expanding the potential for more autonomous and resident applications.

Increased automation
Advanced arm control comes from position and force feedback, repeatability and in-built intelligence.

Direct end effector control can be achieved when coupled with an intuitive human input device and an inverse kinematics system. Adding our advanced perception systems will lead to a blend of supervised and fully autonomous manipulation. These future control options will be backward compatible and available as upgrades to existing manipulators.

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The Panther-XT Plus is a 1000m rated vehicle fitted with ten 500 Volt DC thrusters - eight horizontal and two vertical - with the option of a third vertical thruster, providing the Panther-XT Plus with exceptional handling and speeds of up to 3.5 knots. 

The high-powered Panther-XT Plus accommodates two Schilling Orion manipulators plus a wide range of sensors and heavy duty tooling skids, making it ideal for tasks that include drill support, pipeline survey, IRM, and salvage.

Available as a free swimmer or in conjunction with a Tether Management System (TMS) and an A Frame Launch and Recovery system (LARS) with surface equipment available as either free-standing units or integrated into a control cabin.

Panther-XT Plus Overview

• Two Surface Power Supply Units and a Surface Control Unit supplied as free standing units or fitted inside an air conditioned control container.

• Surface Equipment includes Hand Control Unit, keyboard and two colour monitors. An additional hand control unit is available for systems fitted with a manipulator skid.

• Cabin Junction Box for connections between the surface and subsea. Includes Fibre Optic MUX with video and data connections. Additional MUX options available.

• Available as a free swimming ROV or in conjunction with a Type 8 Tether Management System (TMS) for depths up to 1000 m.

• ROV rated to 1000m fitted with eight horizontal thrusters and two vertical thrusters supplied with 500 Volts DC. ROV is fitted with two electronics pods; a main and an auxiliary. The main pod provides interfaces for four LED lights, up to four cameras, a depth sensor and a solid state compass (located inside the main electronics pod) for vehicle auto heading and auto depth. Auto altitude is available as an option when an altimeter is fitted. Several versions of the auxiliary pod are available to meet specific customer's requirements. 

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