{"id":20464,"date":"2022-08-05T06:57:09","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T06:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shipip.com\/?p=20464"},"modified":"2022-08-05T06:57:09","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T06:57:09","slug":"us-navy-to-test-autonomous-hull-cleaning-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/developmenttask.com\/ShipIpLtd\/us-navy-to-test-autonomous-hull-cleaning-robot\/","title":{"rendered":"US Navy to test autonomous hull-cleaning robot"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Greensea Systems has partnered with its affiliate Armach Robotics and Maryland\u2019s Maritime Environmental Resource Center (MERC) to provide these services to US Naval Research.<\/p>\n

Together, they will develop and trial an autonomous hull-cleaning vehicle under a two-year programme. This follows work already undertaken by Greensea through a small-business technology transfer programme.<\/p>\n

The group has a two-year contract with the US Navy to demonstrate the commercial viability of the technology and its value to naval ships.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe objective is to develop a highly autonomous robotic system for proactively cleaning ship hulls, that can be operated easily and cost-effectively with minimal supervision,\u201d said Armach Robotics director of regulatory compliance and outreach Karl Lander.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe US Navy is investigating this technology as a means to keep ships clear of biofouling in an environmentally sustainable way, ensuring fleet readiness and ultimately reducing hull-related maintenance costs.\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The focus of the earlier development work was to design, characterise, develop and test an on-hull navigation system for future robotic units.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe focus of the newly awarded option period is to continue to refine the navigation and autonomy technology, demonstrate the capabilities through proactive cleaning of a vessel of significance to the US Navy, and deliver a complete data package for the cleaning system,\u201d said Mr Lander.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Greensea has developed a hull-relative positioning system for use in a hull crawling robot, designed and built by Armach Robotics. An Armach hull cleaning robot will use a combination of inertia sensors and sonar to navigate around a ship\u2019s hull.<\/p>\n

It will be capable of determining and continually updating its position on the ship\u2019s hull with extreme accuracy, enabling Greensea\u2019s autonomy capabilities to free the operator from driving the robot.<\/p>\n

MERC brings its expertise in biofouling control methods and will provide critical support in independent, scientific assessments of the robots\u2019 navigation, autonomy and cleaning technologies.<\/p>\n

On top of supplying the hull-cleaning robot, Armach Robotics will provide robot operators to conduct field operations throughout the contract period.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source: https:\/\/www.rivieramm.com\/news-content-hub\/us-navy-to-test-autonomous-hull-cleaning-robot-on-vessels-72226<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Greensea Systems has partnered with its affiliate Armach Robotics and Maryland\u2019s Maritime Environmental Resource Center (MERC) to provide these services to US Naval Research. Together, they will develop and trial an autonomous hull-cleaning vehicle under a two-year programme. This follows work already undertaken by Greensea through a small-business technology transfer programme. The group has a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-20464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maritime-safety-news","tag-autonomous-vessels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/developmenttask.com\/ShipIpLtd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/developmenttask.com\/ShipIpLtd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/developmenttask.com\/ShipIpLtd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/developmenttask.com\/ShipIpLtd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/developmenttask.com\/ShipIpLtd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/developmenttask.com\/ShipIpLtd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/developmenttask.com\/ShipIpLtd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/developmenttask.com\/ShipIpLtd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/developmenttask.com\/ShipIpLtd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}