Autonomous Underwater Vehicle

General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University (KDU), is a graduate research defence university situated in Sri Lanka committed to achieving millennium sustainable goals and conducting collaborative research work with the Sri Lanka Navy, especially in the field of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles & Optimization (AUV) to explore sea belongs to Sri Lanka.

AUV, KDU Version 1 is already designed and developed by group of researchers led by Commodore (E) MCP Dissanayake MSc (ME) (Australia), BTech Mech Eng, CEng(India), MIE(India), AMIE(SL) of Department of Marine Engineering. Further, developing of a reliable control system to enhance the performance of existing AUV is in progress.