A team of engineers from the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC), Carderock Division recently patented a new software modeling capability that digitally replicates the physics of underwater vehicles and towed bodies and tracks the movements of the tow cable when bodies attach or detach.
The patent, U.S. Patent 11,554,838 B1, titled “Maneuvering and Control Simulator for Underwater Vehicles,” was filed in support of the Maneuvering and Control Simulator for Underwater Vehicles (MACSUV) program. The team responsible for developing the MACSUV program are team lead Alexander Tsarev and mechanical engineers Roger Kleinmann, Jennifer Nunes, and Jeeven Hugh, all with Carderock’s Maritime Systems Hydromechanics Branch.