Rescue USV Boat 

Rescue USV System

Life-Saving Autonomy on Water

The Rescue USV Boat is a pre-programmed, unmanned surface vehicle that uses artificial intelligence and advanced electronic systems to find, reach, and protect people in danger—on rivers, in flooded streets and homes, and across busy waterways—without risking the life of another human rescuer.

Core Purpose & Use Cases

  • River & Flood Rescue: Autonomously locates and approaches people swept away or trapped in inundated urban areas and buildings.
  • 24/7 Presence: Operates tirelessly in extreme cold, heat, wind, and poor visibility.
  • Traffic Awareness: Detects other vessels, avoids collisions, and streams live traffic updates to the control tower.
  • No Added Risk: Saves lives without sending human rescuers into hazardous waters.
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At-a-Glance Advantages

Autonomy Pre-programmed missions with real-time AI decision-making
Sensing Thermal & night vision, LiDAR/radar/sonar, underwater scanning
Comms Live video/audio to control tower; traffic & water data updates
Endurance Continuous 24/7 operation; weather-resilient & tireless
Safety Removes risk to human rescuers in high-hazard zones

Designed for rivers, reservoirs, coastal zones, and flooded urban environments.

Intelligent Navigation

The vessel fuses LiDAR, radar, sonar, and computer vision for obstacle detection and collision avoidance. It tracks nearby boat traffic and streams real-time situational updates to the command center.

• Autonomous path planning • Dynamic re-routing • Geofencing

Search & Detection

Thermal and infrared cameras detect human body heat for night and low-visibility rescues. Underwater scanning helps locate survivors beneath debris or partially submerged structures.

• Night vision (IR) • Body-heat localisation • Sonar imaging

Environmental Monitoring

Continuously measures water temperature and current parameters, reporting live to the control tower for rescue coordination and hydrological intelligence.

• Temp & current sensing • Event logging • Incident playback

Human-Centric AI

The boat can converse with people in distress, ask their preferred language, and switch instantly—guiding them to safety while relaying status and location back to command in real time.

• Multilingual voice prompts • Calm guidance & reassurance • Live audio/video uplink

Operational Advantages

Built for all-weather, 24/7 deployment. It does not tire, fear, or hesitate—and it never requires sending another person into danger to attempt a rescue.

• No human risk • Fleet-scale coverage • Rapid response

Command & Control

A secure control tower receives location, telemetry, traffic maps, and survivor status for coordinated response. Mission plans can be pre-programmed and updated live.

• Secure link • Real-time updates • Priority tasking

Why a Rescue USV

  • Risk displacement: Keeps responders out of swiftwater, surf, toxic plumes, and debris fields.
  • Persistent presence: Holds station for hours; no fatigue, safe rotation of crews.
  • Rapid launch: Pre-positioned assets deploy in minutes; no crew muster delays.
  • Systematic coverage: Executes repeatable search patterns with full track logs.

Outcome: faster time-to-assist, reduced exposure, and auditable operations during floods, harbour incidents, and offshore events.

Operating Environments Where Humans Shouldn’t Linger

  • Flood & swiftwater: Unstable footing, submerged hazards, contamination, culverts/weirs.
  • Harbour/industrial HAZMAT: Toxic smoke, heat, explosive atmospheres, battery fires.
  • Night/low-viz offshore: MOB recovery in sea state >3; cold-shock risk.
  • Ice/overwash/debris: Ice pans, large timber, entanglement hazards.
  • Security/hostile zones: Secondary hazards and threat exposure.

Capability Pillars

A. Survivability of the Platform
  • Self-righting geometry, compartmentalised buoyancy, protected appendages.
  • Ducted jets/shrouded props, debris screens, crash-stop capability.
  • Redundant power (dual buses, hybrid options), thermal and EMI protection.
  • Decon-friendly materials; sealed decks; integrated flush points.
B. Perception & Detection
  • Thermal IR for body-heat detection; low-light RGB + spotlight.
  • Solid-state radar for smoke/fog; near-field lidar for close-quarters.
  • Acoustic pickup for shouts/whistles; AIS & passive RF awareness.
  • Environmental sensors (current, depth, turbidity, hydrocarbons).
C. Autonomy & Control
  • Teleop, assisted teleop, waypoint, search-pattern, station-keep, RTB.
  • COLREGs-aware pathing; health monitoring and graceful degradation.
  • Fail-safes: loss-of-link → loiter/RTB per geofence; dead-man/remote-kill.
D. Communications & Networking
  • Dual VHF/UHF, LTE/5G, satellite as needed; automatic failover.
  • Edge autonomy buffers latency; encrypted links; signed firmware.
  • Interop with incident command, CAD/dispatch, and live video to EOC.
E. Intervention Payloads
  • Loudhailer & two-way audio; high-candela illumination and strobes.
  • Auto-inflating life rings, rescue lines, compact raft or stern sled.
  • Markers: dye, buoy dropper; optional portable pump feed (mission-dependent).
F. Launch, Recovery & Logistics
  • Ramp, slip, crane, trailer, or rooftop slide; single-operator options.
  • Sacrificial nose, rub rails; quick bow-eye recoveries.
  • Quick-charge shore power or hybrid refuel; cold-weather battery care.
G. Maintainability
  • Modular jets, sensor mast, battery packs; field-swappable.
  • Pre-mission self-tests; QR-linked maintenance guides.
  • Decon SOP: rinse paths, bleach-safe surfaces, wastewater capture.
H. Safety, Legal & Assurance
  • Geofences and keep-out maps; event logging for evidential chain.
  • Authority permissions; operator certification; public-interaction protocols.

Concept of Operations (CONOPS)

  1. Alert/Tasking: CAD/EOC issues mission; review weather, comms, geofence, risk controls.
  2. Launch: Single/dual operator deploy; 60–120 seconds from vehicle stop to water (with pre-rigging).
  3. Transit: Assisted autonomy paths; operator monitors video/thermal.
  4. Search: Sector/expanding square/creeping line; breadcrumb logging; AI flags for review.
  5. Fix & Assist: Hail casualty; deliver flotation/line; hold up-current; guide shore team.
  6. Handover/Extract: Tow to safe water or rendezvous; maintain overwatch.
  7. RTB & Decon: Return, rinse, health check, recharge/refuel, log sync, AAR.

Performance Targets (Reference)

  • Endurance: 3–8 h battery; 10–20 h hybrid (mission-dependent).
  • Speed: 20–30+ kn sprint; precise low-speed control prioritised.
  • Sea state: Station-keep in 3–4; short transits in 4–5 with caution.
  • Detection: Human-size thermal targets with redundancy in rain/fog.
  • Payload: 25–100 kg usable (size and endurance trade-off).

Human Factors

  • Accessible control: High-contrast UI, large targets, glove-friendly; aural/haptic cues.
  • Training: 4–8 h to basic proficiency; drills for loss-of-link, entanglement, casualty tow.
  • Cognitive load: Autonomy manages boat-handling so operators focus on detection and decisions.

Risks & Trade-offs (Reality Check)

  • Comms fragility: Cell networks may fail; use mesh/LOS radios and autonomy buffers.
  • Thermal false positives: Sun-warmed debris/wave tops; keep human verification.
  • Entanglement/impacts: Shrouded props can still foul; design for quick retrieval.
  • GNSS limits: Urban canyons/spoofing; combine multi-band GNSS + inertial + visual odometry.
  • Legal compliance: Waterway permissions; strict COLREGs in mixed traffic.
  • Battery realities: Cold reduces capacity; fast-charge ages packs—plan spares/charging doctrine.

What “Mechanical Guardian” Looks Like

  • Flooded suburb at night: Creeping-line search; thermal hit; ring deploy; hold station; guide high-ground team via line.
  • Pier fire in toxic smoke: Upwind overwatch; live video/radar; marker buoy for exclusion zone.
  • Offshore MOB in rough chop: Sprint to AIS-SART datum; bow-to-seas; deliver flotation; guide mothership.

Procurement-Ready Acceptance Criteria

  • Launch time from vehicle stop ≤ 2 minutes (repeatable).
  • Station-keeping error ≤ 1.5 m RMS in 20-kt gusts (tune per hull).
  • Verified loss-of-link behaviour: loiter/RTB and notify.
  • Thermal detection blind trial with documented false-positive rate.
  • Run-time at 6 kn with sensors on, verified winter/summer.
  • Decontamination cycle completed ≤ 10 minutes with SOP.

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