Seaeye Leopard
Leopard
work-class rov
The Seaeye Leopard is designed to offer operators an exceptionally powerful electric work class ROV in a compact chassis. Developed from the highly successful Panther XT-Plus, the Seaeye Leopard produces an impressive half tonne of forward thrust, with fifty percent more payload, three times the tooling power and double the depth rating, whilst maintaining the same deck footprint.
Equipped with Seaeye's iCON™ intelligent control system, this 2000/3000m work ROV benefits from an enhanced user interface, simple network architecture, exceptional handling and power with advanced autopilots including pitch and roll stabilisation, built in diagnostics, redundancy and remote internet access for upgrades and technical support.
Capable of accommodating Schilling Orion or Hydro-Lek heavy duty manipulators, as well as a wide range of work class sensors and interchangeable tooling equipment, the Seaeye Leopard is ideally suited to work tasks including drill support, pipeline survey, exploration, salvage, cleaning and deep water IRM.
Chassis
The extremely rugged polypropylene and stainless steel chassis has been designed to maximise free water flow through the ROV. Materials and design are balanced to create an incredibly lightweight chassis, maximising strength and stiffness to support a 1Te through frame lift capability for tooling skids and rigid mountings for manipulators, TDUs, tools and sensors.
Propulsion
Propulsion is delivered by 7 or 11 vectored SM9 500v brushless DC thrusters providing 6-axis control. This provides for active vehicle stability allowing much greater thrust to be introduced into the chassis. The thrust vectoring algorithm can also accommodate multiple damaged thrusters whilst retaining normal flying characteristics.
Buoyancy
Buoyancy is derived from syntactic foam blocks finished with a tough polyurethane skin. The buoyancy modules contain apertures for vertical thrusters and the main system lift point.
Lighting
The Leopard is fitted with six long-life LED lights (on four individually controlled channels). They provide excellent illumination with very low power consumption and are very robust.
Equipment Interfaces
A wide range of standard or custom interfaces are available, in particular for:
- Cameras
- Manipulators, boom arms, cutters
- CP probe
- Sonar systems (obstacle avoidance, side-scan, multibeam, profiling)
- Scientific equipment (bathy, CTD, etc)
- Emergency strobe
- Tracking system
- Tooling motor
- Auxiliary connections (RS485/RS232/Ethernet)