The Rolls-Royce Blue Ocean team has developed a range of autonomous ship concepts as well as innovative designs for various ship types.
Technical Research Centre of Finland notes
It was obvious that ships of the future
that one of these recent research projects
would be fitted with increasingly sophisti-
was FIMECC UXUS that was concluded at
cated automation technology.
the end of 2015.
”According to the feedback we
real reason why the same concept would
not work aboard ships as well.”
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”In this project, concepts for new
received from the first results, our concepts
The research team considered that
types of ship bridges were outlined,” she
appeared quite radical but still believable,”
oceangoing ships perhaps could be
explains.
says Kaasinen.
remotely steered from a control centre
”At first, the idea was to figure out
”The next step from largely auto-
located somewhere far away on dry land.
how the daily work of ship steering and
mated vessels would be unmanned ships.
This idea would certainly change the work-
other operations might change in the
As robot cars and drone airplanes are
ing practices of ship controllers and cap-
future.”
already being utilised, there should be no
tains.
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