{"id":307,"date":"2015-11-10T15:18:59","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T15:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/fsiblog\/?p=307"},"modified":"2015-11-10T15:18:59","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T15:18:59","slug":"gdp63-team-fortitude-autonomous-operations-at-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/2015\/11\/10\/gdp63-team-fortitude-autonomous-operations-at-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"GDP63 Team Fortitude \u2013 Autonomous Operations at Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"

Team Fortitude has now become a group of nine finalists (six ship scientists and three mechanical engineers) who aim to show proof of concept for a number of autonomous solutions applicable to full scale ships using last year\u2019s autonomous surface vessel (ASV), Fortitude.
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\nIn 2013, 54 ships were lost at sea, sank or were never found and it\u2019s recognised\u00a0that around 80% of marine accidents\u00a0involve some aspect of\u00a0human error.\u00a0 The Team wants to explore how the number of casualties at sea could be reduced\u00a0by enhancing automation\u00a0to aid\u00a0human part of operation from ships. Beyond the safety concerns, up to 40% of a ship\u2019s operating costs\u00a0are associated with crewing.\u00a0 The hours can be long and with significant time spent away from home. If you can\u00a0alter the responsibilities and hours and potentially base more of the crew in shore based roles\u00a0you can\u00a0 improve working conditions and reduce some of this cost. Team Fortitude wants to prove the feasibility of autonomous ships by showing how a number of autonomous solutions can approach day to day operational requirements on a vessel (e.g. navigational decision making, diagnostics communications, tank operations and fluid movements etc.). These solutions will be scaled down and applied to the current Fortitude platform to investigate these issues.
\nBy the end of the academic year the Team hope to test the ASV with a fully autonomous journey around the Isle of Wight. Under current constraints this is a totally feasible objective and will not pose any threat to Fortitude as the trip can be supervised. Under additional support the Team will be able to further their improvements to set Fortitude up for a transatlantic crossing. The journey has never been done by an ASV and it would be a fantastic opportunity for the University to make the very most of. The trip would take around 40 days and would truly push the longevity of autonomous parts, a fact that would be absolutely vital for a fully autonomous ship.
\nTo stay up to date with Team Fortitude, head to www.facebook.com\/fortitudeASV<\/u><\/a> and\/or www.twitter.com\/fortitudeASV<\/u><\/a> or to get in touch email fdt@soton.ac.uk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Team Fortitude has now become a group of nine finalists (six ship scientists and three mechanical engineers) who aim to show proof of concept for a number of autonomous solutions applicable to full scale ships using last year\u2019s autonomous surface vessel (ASV), Fortitude. In 2013, 54 ships were lost at sea, sank or were never … Continue reading GDP63 Team Fortitude \u2013 Autonomous Operations at Sea<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4066,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4066"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/maritimeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}