MAUVE(*): Miniaturized and reconfigurable instrumentation for multipurpose survey with a mini autonomous underwater vehicle

The overall objective of the MAUVE project is to develop and validate at sea a miniaturized, reconfigurable, mobile and autonomous Instrumented vehicle, dedicated to Multipurpose Survey, in particular in coastal waters, It will be characterized by coherent integration of a compact automatic multiparameter measurement module with a very small Autonomous Underwater vehicle, enabling sensor-driven navigation, Such a demonstrator, derived from an existing ''Torpedo-shaped'' AUV (CALAS), is being developed and will be validated at sea in mediterranean coastal waters, within ''plume survey'' and ''bottom mapping'' configurations However, the potentialities of the ''MAUVE'' project open a much wider spectrum of potential applications, ranging from the monitoring of sub-ice conditions to the surveillance of various dumping sites, through the inspection of the quality of bathing waters