**Design of Large Diameter Mine Countermeasure Hybrid Power Unmanned Underwater Vehicle**

Kwang Sub Song

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#### **Abstract**

Mines are one of the most cost-effective and moderated weapon systems that are easy to deploy, but difficult to clear. Not only has the development of the mine countermeas‐ ure (MCM) underwater unmanned vehicle (UUV) improved cost- and time-effective‐ ness in operation, but also it has avoided unnecessary human casualties.

In MCM UUV operations, technical challenges, such as detection, classification and neutralization of mines, and vehicle management operations, arise from the incapacity of detection sensors, data-processing power. Due to the small volume capacity, decisionmaking processing and mine-clearing operations are insufficient for safe mine counter‐ measure warfare operations. Larger displacement UUVs must be integrated into new platform designs so that they can be a viable organic asset.

Realization of the full potential of the UUV as a truly autonomous undersea vehicle (AUV) in warfare will begin with a transition to a large displacement vehicle. In case we try to make a larger and heavy UUV system, we still encounter various problems, including vehicle operational time and speed at sea, in addition to vehicle and mission management algorithms with appropriate hardware configurations. In this work, we suggest a larger diameter of the MCM UUV with hybrid power, including the basics of artificial intelligence applied expert systems integrated into the MCM mission manage‐ ment systems.

**Keywords:** mine countermeasure warfare, large diameter unmanned underwater ve‐ hicle, artificial intelligence, hybrid power operation, mission management

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