Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RS) has actually accepted the collection of technological options for automated as well as remote navigating. That will certainly permit to utilize a-Navigation on the ships under the RS guideline, which are mainly signed up under the Russian flag. Previously Russian federal government has actually accepted the mandate allowing vast procedure of the maritime independent vessels under the State flag of RF as a nationwide vast experiment till 2025. Also, on June 30, RS had actually released The Guidelines on the category of maritime independent surface area ships (MASS), as well as on December 1– The Guidelines on Cyber Safety.

The a-Nav collection is established throughout the task performed in Russia in 2019-2020 by a variety of modern technology as well as delivery business with the management by Industry Association MARINET.

The established options are based upon the Comprehensive Functional Equivalence concept, which expects rigorous satisfaction of the features suggested today for the team aboard by the present security guideline in the independent setting. That enables to run MASS within the structure of the present global guideline, as is, as well as to exist together MASS with standard ships.

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The a-Nav is concentrated mainly on automated navigating as opposed to on remote setting as well as consists of a mix of standard as well as brand-new systems. “Among traditional technologies we use radar, AIS and other onboard navigation, engine and mechanic control systems, trajectory control systems, and communication equipment. The new systems are developed in three major points – where we need to provide functional equivalence to the human: Autonomous Navigation System, Optical Surveillance and Analysis System, and Remote Control Center”, states head of MARINET as well as the task lead Alexander Pinskiy.

“Autonomous Navigation System (ANS) is the next level of evolution of Integrated Navigation Systems. It can automatically integrate and validate navigation data from different sources – electronic charts, radar, AIS, optical surveillance system, weather station, satellite images including ice conditions and etc. – what is currently done by human on the bridge in his mind. Then it can automatically recognize dangers of collisions and other navigation restrictions, and make decision for maneuvering taking into account vessel parameters and COLREGs requirements. For this, we have, probably, the first translated COLREGs into univocal computer algorithms. Maneuvering can be done in three modes: automatically, automatically with confirmation by human and manually when ANS is used as a decision support system – either by the remote operator or by the crew on board”, Pinskiy described.

Optical Surveillance as well as Analysis System (OSA) is an optical system qualified to acknowledge as well as determine instantly things 360 levels around the vessel, approximately 12 miles, as well as sending these information in the machine-reading type to the ANS. It has a responses relate to ANS– the like the guy onboard is examining aesthetically things recognized by AIS or radar. Also, OSA gives video clip pictures to the remote driver as well as the team onboard, automated setting is thought about as the major. For this OSA makes use of artificial intelligence for item recognition as well as a mix of noticeable as well as infrared varieties for things acknowledgment. Additionally, OSA consists of clever interior CCTV allowing to regulate aesthetically areas as well as tools of the vessel in the remote setting, which can function instantly responding on some predefined occasions.

The Remote Control Center is a remote bridge with top-level automation, however outside the vessel. It consists of user interfaces to all navigating, technological, as well as control systems along with to radio as well as messaging systems onboard, as well as long-term sound as well as video clip web links to the ship’s bridge. Due to the high degree of automation, the watch can be maintained by one driver– as well as also by one driver for numerous vessels in the future. Remote Control Center can be mounted not just inshore workplaces of delivery business however aboard of lead vessel of the convoy. Such a situation is presently evaluated on the dredging convoy by Rosmorport, where Remote Control Center is placed on the dredger to keep an eye on as well as regulate barges dealing with the dredger.

The a-Nav collection goes to the last of sea tests in the problem of genuine procedure on numerous vessels of 3 significant Russian delivery business, as well as it will certainly be readily available for business usage by delivering business after its effective conclusion. Tests are performed on the vessel Mikchail Ulyanov in the Arctic (SCF), the basic freight ship Pola Anfisa in Black Sea (Pola Group), as well as the dredging convoy consisting of the dredger Redut as well as the barge Rabochaya in Black as well as Azov seas (Rosmorport), as reported by Alexander Pinskiy.

On December 7 as well as 8 the very first memorandums of objective to outfit business vessels by a-Nav collection have actually been currently authorized. Russian delivery business Morspetservice (Sakhalin) as well as Sea Power (St Petersburg) concurred with Kronshtadt Technologies (St Petersburg- based modern technology business) to outfit 20 seller vessels till 2025. The initially 3 ships will certainly be provided right into procedure in 2021. In basic, MARINET has actually revealed strategies to outfit at the very least 100 independent vessels under the Russian flag till 2023.