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It does not jointly surrogate heat, occupied volume, seals, lift loads, maintenance access, or provide a blanked-wet-bay and predecessor-reset regime.","source_ids":["SRC2"]},{"name":"U.S. Navy N212-123 external-UUV-payload solicitation","overlap":"Jointly constrains payload buoyancy, centers of gravity and buoyancy, hydrodynamic interference, through-hull modifications, endurance loss, parasitic drag, transportability, and staged modeling or in-water testing.","remaining_difference":"The artifact is a mission payload and release mechanism, not a non-mission integration mule that reinstates a successful predecessor's physical envelope and compares an accumulated successor backlog.","source_ids":["SRC1"]},{"name":"SAE AIR5992 systems-integration rigs ('Iron Birds')","overlap":"Documents full-scale representative integration rigs used during development, including simulation, component tests, system integration, and lessons learned—an established analogue for exposing interactions before committing the operational vehicle.","remaining_difference":"It is aerospace guidance focused on aircraft systems. It does not disclose an AUV mule that preserves predecessor displacement, hydrodynamics, handling, energy and heat limits using cumulative burden-equivalent payload packages.","source_ids":["SRC4"]},{"name":"REMUS 600 modular AUV","overlap":"Carries successful REMUS 100 software and electronics into a larger, modular vehicle designed for greater depth, endurance, and payload capacity, illustrating the proposed predecessor-to-expanded-successor design setting.","remaining_difference":"It is an operational modular product, not evidence of physical constraint-memory triage, multi-physics surrogate combinations, rollback to predecessor-equivalent ballast, or unloaded blanked wet bays.","source_ids":["SRC3"]}],"contrastive_claim_falsifier":"The contrast is falsified if repeated mule measurements show no practically significant separation between bounded-launch and universal configurations in trim, reserve buoyancy, tow force, lift load, temperature rise, penetrator burden, or access; if removing the common physical mule and using ordinary subsystem reviews produces the same accept/reject result; or if the blanked wet-bay hardware itself consumes the claimed launchability margin.","contrastive_claim_remaining":"Relative to separate subsystem reviews or an unconstrained generic prototype, a predecessor-envelope AUV mule carrying cumulative mass-, buoyancy-, drag-, heat-, volume-, and seal-faithful surrogates will more reliably reject an overloaded universal successor while accepting a portable inspection core, and finite blanked wet bays will preserve a later expansion route without loading the launch configuration with the deferred payloads.","experiment_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp13_second_slot_policy60_20260806","gates":{"adequate_source_search":{"rationale":"Four lanes covered the title and intervention, older 'iron bird' terminology, relevant AUV products and official practices, and combinations involving dummy payloads, buoyancy, trim, drag, endurance, and tank testing. Exactly four opened sources from four publisher contexts were retained, including Navy guidance, a first-party WHOI vehicle page, and an SAE information report.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"],"status":"PASS"},"bounded_next_test":{"rationale":"One predecessor-equivalent baseline plus three removable, non-energized package configurations is a bounded comparison with specified measurements and a narrow decision. Dummy-payload testing on REMUS and staged bench, tank, and open-water validation demonstrate that the core test form is practicable; later pressure, energized thermal, and open-water work remains excluded.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2"],"status":"PASS"},"distinct_testable_claim":{"rationale":"Adjacent art separately establishes multi-payload hydrodynamic testing and full-scale integration rigs, but the proposal adds a measurable contrast: predecessor-envelope constraint memory plus cumulative multi-physics surrogates, resettable configurations, and unloaded blanked wet bays. The stated outcomes and removal control make that distinction falsifiable.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC4"],"status":"PASS"},"no_obvious_safety_or_authority_stop":{"rationale":"The authorized first step is non-propelled, non-energized, sheltered, reversible, and subject to naval-architecture, battery-safety, and test-safety stop authority. Public prior art supports staged bench and tank testing; no source reveals an obvious prohibition. Pressure certification, energized batteries, autonomous operation, and open-water trials remain outside this screen.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2"],"status":"PASS"},"supported_problem":{"rationale":"Official Navy criteria explicitly recognize that payload additions can alter hydrodynamics, controllability, CG/CB, penetrations, drag, and endurance, while the Phase I record physically tested multiple dummy-payload configurations. WHOI's REMUS lineage also makes the depth/endurance/payload-versus-size setting visible. The specific organizational claim that predecessor success released the entire listed backlog is not independently verified.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3"],"status":"PASS"}},"prior_art_disposition":"ADJACENT_PRIOR_ART","problem_evidence":{"finding":"The engineering problem class is visible: added or reconfigured AUV payloads can cumulatively affect buoyancy, centers, hydrodynamics, controllability, and endurance, and multiple dummy payloads have been tested together against an unmodified baseline. Evidence is only partial for the proposal's broader thermal, sealing, maintenance-access, one-person-handling, and success-induced scope-growth narrative.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3"],"status":"PARTLY_SUPPORTED"},"research_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp13_light_screen_20260806","schema_version":1,"screen_id":"E13P175","screen_survival":true,"search_lanes":{"component_combination":{"no_result_note":null,"queries":["AUV \"dummy payloads\" trim drag buoyancy tank testing","AUV payload integration affects buoyancy trim drag endurance penetrators","AUV payload surrogate heat ballast penetrator seal count integration test"],"source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2"]},"direct_problem_and_intervention":{"no_result_note":"The exact-title query produced no matching AUV source; this phrase miss was not treated as novelty evidence, and the search was broadened to integration mules, dummy payloads, and representative rigs.","queries":["\"Constraint-Memory Integration Mule\" AUV","AUV full scale integration test mule mass properties ballast drag surrogate payload"],"source_ids":["SRC2","SRC4"]},"products_practices_and_standards":{"no_result_note":null,"queries":["site:whoi.edu REMUS AUV one person launch payload endurance modular","site:kongsberg.com AUV modular payload section one person launch weight REMUS","site:sae.org AIR5992 iron bird systems integration rigs"],"source_ids":["SRC1","SRC3","SRC4"]},"synonyms_and_historical_terms":{"no_result_note":"No retained source used 'iron bird' specifically for an underwater vehicle; the established aerospace analogue and AUV-specific dummy-payload practice were therefore assessed separately rather than combined into a novelty inference.","queries":["underwater vehicle iron bird test rig ballast trim payload integration","underwater vehicle \"iron bird\" integration rig","AUV design weight buoyancy trim drag thermal management integration testing"],"source_ids":["SRC2","SRC4"]}},"sources":[{"claims_supported":["External UUV payloads can change hydrodynamic behavior, controllability, maneuverability, CG/CB, and endurance.","Design criteria bound neutral buoyancy, through-hull modification, parasitic drag, mission-time loss, transportability, and staged testing."],"publisher":"U.S. Navy SBIR/STTR","source_id":"SRC1","source_type":"OFFICIAL_GUIDANCE","title":"Navy 21.2 SBIR Topic N212-123: External Payload Deployment System for Cylindrical UUVs","url":"https://www.navysbir.com/n21_2/N212-123.htm"},{"claims_supported":["Phase I used multiple A-Size hydrodynamic dummy payloads on a REMUS 600 and validated simulations with in-water tests.","Testing quantified mission-time and mounting-drag effects against an unmodified vehicle; subsequent work specifies bench, dockside, tank, and open-water stages."],"publisher":"U.S. Small Business Administration SBIR.gov","source_id":"SRC2","source_type":"OTHER","title":"External Payload Deployment System for Cylindrical UUVs—SBIR Portfolio Record","url":"https://www.sbir.gov/portfolio/1653565"},{"claims_supported":["REMUS 600 reused successful REMUS 100 software and electronics while adding depth, endurance, and payload capability.","The vehicle weighs 240 kg and uses modular sensor reconfiguration, making the capability, size, and handling design setting visible."],"publisher":"Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution","source_id":"SRC3","source_type":"FIRST_PARTY_PRODUCT","title":"REMUS 600","url":"https://www2.whoi.edu/site/osl/vehicles/remus-600/"},{"claims_supported":["Systems-integration rigs known as Iron Birds are an established development practice.","AIR5992 covers representative rig designs, simulation, component development tests, system integration, and lessons learned."],"publisher":"SAE International","source_id":"SRC4","source_type":"OFFICIAL_STANDARD","title":"AIR5992: Descriptions of Systems Integration Test Rigs (Iron Birds) for Aerospace Applications","url":"https://saemobilus.sae.org/standards/air5992-descriptions-systems-integration-test-rigs-iron-birds-aerospace-applications"}],"world_novelty_boundary":"This bounded public-web screen found close component practices but no opened source disclosing the full AUV combination of predecessor-envelope constraint memory, cumulative multi-physics burden surrogates, integrated margin measurements, resettable ballast baseline, and finite blanked wet bays. That absence establishes neither world novelty nor patentability and says nothing conclusive about market size, expert acceptance, realized value, unpublished work, patents not surfaced by these queries, or proprietary vehicle-development practice."}