Eagle Ray Robotics provides a hardware‑agnostic autonomy platform that links heterogeneous autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) and remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) into a single, coordinated sensing network.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
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Problem
Underwater vehicles such as AUVs and ROVs are typically deployed as isolated platforms, requiring separate hardware and software for each unit. This limits the ability to perform coordinated sensing, reduces detection confidence, and forces operators to redesign or replace equipment to add cooperative capabilities.
Solution
ConstelX is a hardware‑agnostic autonomy platform that runs on the onboard computers of existing AUVs, ROVs, fixed sensors, and surface nodes. By integrating directly with each vehicle’s software stack, it creates a single operational network without the need for hardware redesign. The platform manages low‑bandwidth acoustic communication, data sharing, and cooperative decision‑making, allowing assets to detect, verify, and track subsea objects together. Multi‑vehicle sensor fusion increases detection confidence and extends sensing range, while modular applications enable mission‑specific tasks such as infrastructure monitoring, maritime security, environmental observation, and offshore energy inspection. Operators can therefore build intelligent subsea sensing networks from heterogeneous fleets already in service.
Target Audience
Primary customers are operators of subsea fleets in offshore energy, port facilities, maritime security, and environmental monitoring, as well as OEMs seeking to add cooperative autonomy to their AUV/ROV product lines.
Features
- Direct integration with diverse AUV and ROV platforms, requiring no hardware modifications
- On‑board operating system that coordinates communication, data exchange, and cooperative sensing across the fleet
- Support for low‑bandwidth acoustic links, maintaining network cohesion in constrained underwater environments
- Multi‑vehicle sensor fusion that improves detection confidence and expands effective sensing coverage
- Modular operational applications for subsea infrastructure monitoring, security surveillance, environmental monitoring, and asset inspection
- API and SDK that allow OEMs and third‑party developers to add cooperative capabilities to existing vehicles
- Patent‑pending cooperative sensing architecture that coordinates distributed detection and imaging tasks