DVL A50

DVL A50 is Water Linked compact Doppler Velocity Log for underwater vehicles. It provides velocity relative to the seabed, helping ROVs, AUVs and divers navigate, hold position and remain stable underwater.

Facts

  • Company: Water Linked
  • Type: Dvl Sensor
  • Core: Underwater velocity
  • Function: Navigation
  • Audience: Marine operators
  • Status: Commercial
  • Website: https://waterlinked.com/shop/dvl-a50-1248

Specifications

  • Price: $8,710.00; page also states from less than $8,000 US
  • Depth Rating: 300 m depth-rated configuration available
  • Target Use Cases: Small ROV, AUV and underwater vehicle navigation
  • Interface: Ethernet and serial connection options
  • Operating Environment: Underwater bottom-track navigation and dead reckoning

Market context

DVL A50 is Water Linked's compact Doppler velocity log for underwater vehicles needing bottom-track velocity data and dead-reckoning support.

  • Target environment: Small AUVs, ROVs, underwater inspection robots, subsea mapping systems, and marine autonomy platforms.
  • Workflow context: Underwater navigation, velocity estimation, station keeping, dead reckoning, subsea inspection, and localization support without GNSS.
  • Customer context: AUV builders, ROV integrators, marine robotics teams, inspection providers, and subsea research labs.

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Research

  • VIA-SLAM: An Underwater Visual-Inertial-Acoustic SLAM With Integrated DVL - 2025-05-19 - Research Publication - The real-world ROV setup combines a ZED2i stereo camera, 200 Hz IMU and Water Linked DVL A50 operating at 10 Hz. The system fuses visual, inertial and acoustic velocity observations to improve underwater localization when… - source: doi.org
  • SOLAQUA: SINTEF Ocean Large Aquaculture Robotics Dataset - 2025-04-02 - Research Publication - SINTEF collected the dataset during manual and autonomous underwater-robot traversals inside an operational sea-based fish farm. The sensor suite includes Water Linked DVL A50, Nortek Nucleus 1000 DVL, USBL, multibeam… - source: arxiv.org
  • Graph Matching for Underwater Simultaneous Localization and Mapping Using Multibeam Sonar Imaging - 2024-10-17 - Research Publication - The experimental BlueROV2 integrates an Oculus M1200d multibeam sonar, Water Linked DVL A50 and IMU through ROS. Researchers collected field data in a shallow river environment containing silt, aquatic life, harbor… - source: doi.org

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