Tboat Series Unmanned Surface Vehicles for Intelligent Water Survey Operation
2026-03-18
TOKNAV Launches Tboat10 & Tboat20 Unmanned Surface Vehicles
In the era of rapid intelligent technology development, hydrographic survey and water operation are undergoing profound transformation. Traditional methods, relying heavily on manual operation and conventional vessels, face low efficiency, high labor costs, poor safety in complex waters, and unstable data accuracy. To address these pain points, TOKNAV Information Technology Co., Ltd., a leader in intelligent marine and geospatial technology, officially launches the Tboat Series Unmanned Surface Vehicles. This new series includes two professional models: Tboat10 and Tboat20, tailored to different application scenarios. Focused on modern hydrographic survey and intelligent water operations, the Tboat Series Unmanned Surface Vehicles integrate high-precision GNSS positioning, stable autonomous navigation, and flexible sensor integration, providing efficient, reliable data collection for rivers, lakes, reservoirs, coastal areas, and other complex water bodies. The launch enriches TOKNAV’s product matrix and marks its progress in unmanned surface vehicle technology, helping users improve operational efficiency and data accuracy in water survey, environmental monitoring, and water engineering projects. The Tboat Series Unmanned Surface Vehicles are designed to break traditional survey limitations, combining advanced hardware and intelligent software for full-process autonomous operation, reducing manual intervention and enhancing safety. As global urbanization and environmental protection advance, demand for intelligent water survey grows, and the Tboat Series Unmanned Surface Vehicles will drive the industry’s digital and intelligent transformation.
Tboat10: Compact USV for Efficient Survey in Complex Waters
The Tboat10 is a compact, highly maneuverable model in the Tboat Series Unmanned Surface Vehicles, designed for efficient surveys in narrow rivers, small-to-medium lakes, and reservoirs. Unlike large vessels, its 1.2m length and 0.6m width let it navigate narrow channels, shallow waters, and vegetation-dense areas. This compact design also enables easy transport (fit for standard SUVs) and deployment within 15 minutes, boosting field flexibility and emergency response. To ensure stable navigation, the Tboat10 features an optimized M-type hydrodynamic hull, refined through thousands of simulations and trials to reduce resistance, enhance stability, and minimize wave-induced oscillation—critical for high-accuracy tasks like shallow-water bathymetry and narrow-river water quality monitoring. The Tboat Series Unmanned Surface Vehicles’ Tboat10 model adopts a hidden-impeller pump-jet propulsion system, avoiding entanglement with aquatic debris (a common traditional vessel issue) and reducing harm to aquatic life, making it eco-friendly. This system also offers low noise and high efficiency, with simple maintenance: regular impeller cleaning and pipeline checks, no complex disassembly.
Power supply is key to the Tboat Series Unmanned Surface Vehicles’ performance. The Tboat10 uses a 900W high-torque brushless DC motor, ensuring stable navigation in shallow or fast-flowing waters. It is equipped with two 33.6V hot-swappable 20Ah lithium batteries; the hot-swappable design allows 30-second battery replacement without shutdown, ensuring continuous operation. Under normal conditions, dual batteries support 8-10 hours of work and a 20km survey range, meeting daily small-to-medium water area needs. An intelligent battery management system monitors power, temperature, and voltage in real time, preventing overcharging, over-discharging, and short-circuiting. Safety is prioritized in the Tboat Series Unmanned Surface Vehicles: the Tboat10 has a double-layer bow (high-strength plastic outer, reinforced aluminum alloy inner) to absorb collision impacts, protecting internal components. It includes a water ingress alarm (triggering alerts and automatic return-to-home), an ultrasonic/machine vision obstacle avoidance system, and multi-scenario automatic return-to-home (low battery, signal loss, manual activation). A 360° HD camera transmits real-time images to the control terminal, enhancing safety. In practice, the Tboat10 outperforms manual methods: in a suburban shallow river survey, it boosted efficiency by over 3x with higher accuracy; in reservoir water quality monitoring, it collected real-time pH, dissolved oxygen, and turbidity data for background analysis.
Tboat20: Professional Multi-Purpose USV for Large-Scale Hydrographic Missions
The Tboat20’s propulsion and power systems are upgraded for long-distance operations: a dual 1500W motor propulsion system provides strong power, even in rough conditions. Four 33.6V high-capacity lithium batteries (total 80Ah) support 12-15 hours of continuous work and a 50km survey range. A dedicated fast charger enables full charging in 4 hours, and a solar auxiliary charging system extends endurance, reducing external power dependence. The Tboat Series Unmanned Surface Vehicles’ Tboat20 is equipped with an advanced autonomous navigation system, using multi-sensor fusion (GNSS, inertial navigation, electronic compass) for centimeter-level positioning. It supports waypoint, track, and manual remote control navigation modes, with a remote monitoring system enabling real-time data transmission, parameter adjustment, and fault diagnosis. In practice, the Tboat20 excels in large-scale projects: in a coastal city’s 100-square-kilometer mapping project, it reduced labor costs by over 60% and survey time by over 40% compared to traditional methods, providing accurate data for coastal development. In offshore environmental monitoring, it collected long-term water quality and ecological data for policy formulation.
The Tboat20, another model in the Tboat Series Unmanned Surface Vehicles, is a professional-grade USV for large-scale, long-distance, high-intensity surveys, suitable for coastal mapping, offshore environmental monitoring, and other high-payload, long-endurance tasks. Its 50kg maximum payload allows flexible integration of advanced equipment: a high-precision multibeam echo sounder for large-area bathymetry, a side-scan sonar for underwater target detection, an ADCP system for flow velocity/rate measurement, and environmental sensors for water quality, temperature, and salinity data. The Tboat Series Unmanned Surface Vehicles’ Tboat20 features a reinforced composite hull (high-strength FRP and carbon fiber), offering high strength, corrosion resistance, impact resistance, and light weight. It withstands level 6 winds and 1.5m waves, operating normally in coastal and large-lake environments, with a streamlined shape reducing resistance and improving stability.
Modular Design & Flexible Applications for Intelligent Water Operations
Both Tboat10 and Tboat20 in the Tboat Series Unmanned Surface Vehicles adopt a modular expansion design, based on diverse user and scenario needs, enabling flexible configuration of sensors, payloads, and functional modules for multi-purpose use and improved cost-effectiveness. The Tboat Series Unmanned Surface Vehicles’ modular design has three core aspects: sensor, payload, and functional modularization. Sensor modularization includes standard interfaces compatible with mainstream survey sensors (bathymetric, water quality, current, imaging), allowing quick installation/replacement without modifying the vessel. For example, a multibeam echo sounder for bathymetry or a water quality sensor for monitoring can be swapped easily.
Payload modularization features a detachable platform, adjustable for payload size/weight, supporting sampling devices, cameras, and communication equipment. The Tboat10 can carry a small water sampler for narrow rivers, while the Tboat20 handles large-scale samplers for large areas, with easy maintenance and replacement. Functional modularization supports expansion of automatic sampling, data analysis, and remote communication modules. Adding an automatic sampling module reduces manual intervention; a data analysis module enables real-time data processing. The Tboat Series Unmanned Surface Vehicles’ flexible design ensures wide application: bathymetry for water conservancy/port projects, water quality monitoring for environmental protection, automatic water sampling for representative samples, underwater infrastructure inspection (pipelines, bridges, dams), hydrological monitoring for forecasting, and marine ecological/fishery resource surveys, showing broad prospects.
Reliable Performance for Safe & Efficient Aquatic Survey Tasks
he Tboat Series Unmanned Surface Vehicles have gained wide user recognition for stable performance, high compatibility, and strong environmental adaptability. Stable performance comes from optimized hulls, advanced propulsion systems, and high-quality electronic/control systems; after thousands of hours of water testing and strict quality checks, the failure rate is below 1%, meeting long-term continuous operation needs. High compatibility is a key advantage: the Tboat Series Unmanned Surface Vehicles work seamlessly with mainstream survey equipment, sensors, and software (e.g., ArcGIS, Surfer), reducing update costs. Multiple communication modes (4G, 5G, satellite) enable real-time data transmission and remote control in all environments. Strong environmental adaptability allows operation in shallow, narrow, turbulent, or coastal waters: Tboat10 for inland waters, Tboat20 for offshore/large-scale waters. Both models have IP67 waterproof/dustproof protection and operate at -10℃ to 50℃, suitable for all regions and seasons.
The launch of the Tboat Series Unmanned Surface Vehicles reflects TOKNAV’s innovation in unmanned systems and geospatial technology. As a provider of intelligent marine and survey solutions, TOKNAV has rich R&D experience in USV technology, and this series integrates its latest achievements, meeting current industry needs and future intelligent trends, offering professional solutions to global hydrographic and aquatic engineering users. In the future, TOKNAV will continue to innovate Tboat Series Unmanned Surface Vehicles technology, optimize performance, launch new models, and cooperate with global partners to promote intelligent water survey technology, contributing to the industry’s digital and intelligent transformation. The Tboat Series Unmanned Surface Vehicles stand as a testament to TOKNAV’s commitment to high quality, efficiency, and intelligence, shaping the future of water survey operations worldwide.