SeaLandAire

Hardware Development

SeaLandAire mechanical, electrical and sensor engineering staff work closely with the designers to turn the ideas into 3-D models and drawings that identify design requirement. The specific expertise include:

  • Packaging
    • Size constraints
    • Weight constraints
  • Deployment
    • Flight certification
    • Remote release mechanism
    • Underwater deployment
  • Operations
    • Low noise systems
      • Low electronic self noise
      • Low mechanical noise
      • Wave isolation
      • High sensor sensitivity
    • Signal conditioning
    • Communication
    • Embedded controllers
    • Power source
    • Hydrodynamic/aerodynamic efficiencies
    • Low drag underwater systems

SeaLandAire has a wide variety of common computer aided design tools to assist in hardware development including:

  • AutoCAD and SolidWorks for mechanical design
  • CosmosWorks for FEA analysis
  • Eagle for schematics and PCB layout.
  • MatLab and Simulink for modeling and simulation
  • Specialized mechanical modeling
  • NSRDC’s FF-2E for free floating sensor systems
  • Top-Moor for ice-moored sensor systems
  • Bot-Moor for anchored sensor systems
  • MatLab-based static 3D catenary solver developed by SeaLandAire
  • Specialized tools for acoustic modeling of hydrophone array concepts and array geometry.
  • Hydrophone/Projector Element design tools
    • Flexure disk elements
    • Cylindrical designs
    • Spherical design