The U.S. Navy’s Orca drone, also known as the Extra-Large Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (XLUUV), has been in development for years, but will soon be in the hands of sailors as the sea service works to ...

The Orca is considered an “Extra Large Unmanned Undersea Vehicle” (XLUUV). Boeing is building this system for the Navy. It is based on design architecture from Boeing’s earlier Echo Voyager ...

The U.S. Navy has conducted the first in-water test of its Extra Large Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (XLUUV) “Orca,” marking a big step toward the future of naval warfare. The idea ...

Meet Orca, an autonomous submarine, nearly the size of an 18-wheeler truck, and the biggest unmanned underwater vehicle in the Navy inventory. Its technical name is the Extra Large Unmanned ...

China has developed the world's first drone that can be launched by a submarine from the water, loop repeatedly between the ...

Unmanned underwater vehicles or UUVs are those machines that can operate underwater without a human on board. There are two different types of UUVs, those that need to be controlled by a human on ...

Autonomous underwater drones, such as the US Navy’s Orca Extra Large Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (XLUUV), are being developed to conduct persistent surveillance of the GIUK Gap, operating in areas ...

Abstract: In this letter, a Model Predictive Control (MPC) approach based on the Incremental Sparse Gaussian Process (ISGP) is designed for trajectory tracking of Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs).