The Emerging UUV & UGV Markets: Forecasts and Business Opportunities to 2020

Table of Contents

• 1.0 Executive summary
• 2.0 Unmanned Undersea Vehicles (UUVs)
• 2.1 UUVs in military and commercial applications
• 2.2 Future UUV mission capabilities and requirements
• 2.3 UUV subsets
  • 2.3.1 Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs)
    • 2.3.1.1 The evolution of ROVs
  • 2.3.2 Autonomous Undersea Vehicles (AUVs)
    • 2.3.2.1 AUV development
    • 2.3.2.2 Strong impact of technological advances on AUVs
    • 2.3.2.3 Commercial, military and scientific AUV applications
    • 2.3.2.4 Emerging trends in the AUV market
    • 2.3.2.5 AUV market development unclear
  • 2.3.3 Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs)
    • 2.3.3.1 USV history and development
    • 2.3.3.2 U.S. at forefront of USV development
• 2.4 UUV industry overview
• 2.5 The world UUV market
• 2.6 UUVs for the commercial sector
• 2.7 The advantages of UUVs
  • 2.7.1 Independent, stable platforms
  • 2.7.2 Cost savings
  • 2.7.3 Flexibility
  • 2.7.4 Bandwidth
  • 2.7.5 Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) capabilities
    • 2.7.5.1 Vessel sensing/tagging
    • 2.7.5.2 Submarine track and trail
• 2.8 UUVs as sensors
• 3.0 Global UUV proliferation
• 3.1 United States
  • 3.1.1 REMUS UUV
    • 3.1.1.1 REMUS applications
    • 3.1.1.2 REMUS sensors
  • 3.1.2 Long Term Mine Reconnaissance System (LMRS)
    • 3.1.2.1 Testing
  • 3.1.3 Mission Re-Configurable UUV (MRUUV)
  • 3.1.4 Battlespace Preparation Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (BPAUV)
  • 3.1.5 Cormorant UUV
  • 3.1.6 WLD-1 Remote Minehunting System (RMS)
  • 3.1.7 Littoral Combat Ship (LCS)
• 3.2 Israel
• 3.3 United Kingdom
• 4.0 UUV technical issues
• 5.0 Industry engagement
• 6.0 Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs)
• 6.1 Market overview
• 7.0 The world UGV market
• 8.0 Definition of Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs)
• 8.1 UGV types
  • 8.1.1 Tele-operated UGVs
  • 8.1.2 Autonomous UGVs
• 8.2 UGV history
• 8.3 Military applications dominate
• 8.4 Civilian applications set to expand
• 8.5 Technical issues
• 8.6 UV / UAV interaction a possibility
• 9.0 Global proliferation of UGVs
• 9.1 U.S. developments
• 9.2 U.S. UGV programmes
  • 9.2.1 Future Combat Systems (FCS)
  • 9.2.2 Armed Robotic Vehicle (ARV)
  • 9.2.3 Multifunction Utility/Logistics and Equipment (MULE)
  • 9.2.4 Small Unmanned Ground Vehicle (SUGV)
  • 9.2.5 Gladiator Tactical Unmanned Ground Vehicle (TUGV)
  • 9.2.6 Dragon Runner Mobile Ground Sensor System
• 9.3 France
• 9.4 Germany
• 9.5 Israel
  • 9.5.1 Guardium UGV
  • 9.5.2 Tomcar
  • 9.5.3 AvantGuard
• 9.6 United Kingdom
• 9.7 Canada
• 10.0 Future UGV applications growing
• 10.1 Potential UGV missions
• 11.0 Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
• 11.1 Market overview
• 11.2 Significant UAV market opportunities expected 12.0 Directory of key UUV and UGV manufacturers
• 12.1 Allen-Vanguard Corporation
• 12.2 Applied Research Associates
• 12.3 Atlas Elektronik
  • 12.3.1 Project ' GREX'
• 12.4 BAE Systems
• 12.5 Boeing
• 12.6 EADS
• 12.7 Elbit Systems
• 12.8 Foster-Miller
• 12.9 General Dynamics
• 12.10 iRobot
• 12.11 Israel Aerospace Industries
• 12.12 Northrop Grumman
• 12.13 Remotec
  • 12.13.1 Andros F6-A
  • 12.13.2 Andros Wolverine
  • 12.13.3 Mini-Andros II
  • 12.13.4 MK8 Plus II Wheelbarrow
  • 12.13.5 Contracts awarded
• 12.14 SAIC
• 12.15 Schilling Sub-Atlantic Alliance
• 12.16 Seaeye Marine

Organisations Listed

• Allen-Vanguard Corporation
• Applied Research Associates
• Atlas Elektronik
• Autonomous Undersea Systems Institute
• BAE Systems
• Bluefin Robotics
• Boeing
• Cap Gemini
• Carnegie Mellon University
• Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
• Délégation Générale pour l' Armement
• EADS
• Elbit Systems
• Fincantieri
• General Dynamics
• Geneva Aerospace, Inc.
• Giat
• Hydroid, Inc.
• IAI
• iRobot
• Lockheed Martin
• Naval Sea Systems Command
• Northrop Grumman
• Office of Naval Research
• QinetiQ
• Rafael Underwater and Surface Warfare Systems
• Remotec
• Russian Academy of Sciences
• Sagem
• SAIC
• Schilling Sub-Atlantic Alliance
• Seaeye Marine
• Sensytech
• Sonatech, Inc.
• Thales
• United Defense Ground Systems
• U.S. Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory
• University of Washington
• Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution