1. The MonoMorph: A Single Ceramic Low-Cost Bender
    03-Dec-2026
    Technical Presentation Theatre
    • Sensors, weapons and countermeasures
    The piezoelectric ceramic is the highest cost component in bender transducers, which are critical elements in sonobuoys and future dipping sonars used on Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs) and Unmanned …
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    Seeing temperature at distance: sub-degree water-temperature retrieval by LiDAR over 50 m
    03-Dec-2026
    Technical Presentation Theatre
    • Sensors, weapons and countermeasures
    Knowledge of the water-column temperature profile is critical to acoustic and optical sensor performance, yet acquiring it currently requires deploying point sensors into the water — an operation that …
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    Dynamics-Aware Safe Surfacing Planning for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles under MaritimeTraffic Constraints
    02-Dec-2026
    Technical Presentation Theatre
    • Platforms and autonomous vehicles
    As autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) undertake increasingly frequent roles across Indo-Pacific defence and maritime operations, the ability to make safe and independent decisions at sea becomes es …
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    Novel Acoustic Sensors for detecting UUVs & improving situational awareness.
    03-Dec-2026
    Technical Presentation Theatre
    • Sensors, weapons and countermeasures
    Advanced submarines use Acoustic Intercept Systems (AIS) to improve situational awareness by analyzing data from directional wideband sensors to provide DCL (Detection, Classification and Localization …
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    Nickel-Zinc Battery Technology for Submarine Applications: A Review of Opportunities, Challenges and Solutions
    02-Dec-2026
    Technical Presentation Theatre
    • Multi-disciplinary solutions
    C. Francis, Senior R&D Engineer, PMB Defence Engineering Pty Ltd, 715 Mersey Road North, Osborne, SA 5017, Australia K. Bradley, Electrochemist, PMB Battery Technologies Ltd, Units 31 and 32, Rassau I …
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    Collaborative UUVs for ISR using LVC methods
    03-Dec-2026
    Technical Presentation Theatre
    • Platforms and autonomous vehicles
    The proliferation of adversary undersea capabilities across the Indo-Pacific region has accelerated the need for scalable, intelligent unmanned systems capable of operating collaboratively in conteste …
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    REPMUS 25 Swarm Directional Gliders: Strategic Persistent Maritime Surveillance
    03-Dec-2026
    Technical Presentation Theatre
    • Platforms and autonomous vehicles
    Technical Paper— Directional passive acoustic monitoring systems (JASCO Applied Sciences’ OceanObserver™) were deployed near Lisbon, Portugal, in September 2025 aboard five Slocum™ G3 (Teledyne Webb R …
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    Launch and Recovery of AUVs from XLUUVs
    02-Dec-2026
    Technical Presentation Theatre
    • Platforms and autonomous vehicles
    Extra-large Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (XLUUVs) offer the potential to rapidly launch and recover smaller AUVs within onboard payload bays on the larger mothership. These launch and recovery opera …
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    Ensuring redundant navigation onboard surface platforms
    02-Dec-2026
    Technical Presentation Theatre
    • Platforms and autonomous vehicles
    As global navies begin to commission the next generation of both crewed and uncrewed surface platforms, there is a drive towards embedding greater levels of autonomy and minimal/lean crewing. This ope …
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    An enhanced multi-target tracking algorithm for low signal to noise ratio targets
    03-Dec-2026
    Technical Presentation Theatre
    • Sensors, weapons and countermeasures
    Target tracking is conventionally performed using point measurement (PM) outputs from a sensor signal detector. However, when tracking targets with low signal to noise ratios (SNR), a low threshold fo …
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