HD Hyundai Delivers Bulker Designed to Operate “Without Engineer”
HD Hyundai has actually supplied what it thinks to be the very first vendor ship with AI-enabled equipment tracking as well as safety and security systems, which are developed to allow the ship sail for prolonged trips “without the help of a navigator, engineer, or deckhand.”
The vessel is a newly-built 180,000 dwt bulker powered by LNG, as well as it is had by H-Line Shipping It is the very first ship to be fitted with HD Hyundai’s Integrated Condition Diagnosis Solution (HiCBM) as well as Integrated Safety Control Solution (HiCAMS). These systems are developed to detect devices mistakes in actual time as well as “automatically recognize emergencies,” like shipboard fires.
HiCBM screens as well as takes care of big, core devices like major engines, accessories, compressors as well as pumps. It makes use of expert system to identify indications of failings ahead of time. HiCAMS makes use of onboard CCTV video clip feeds as well as expert system to expect safety-related occasions in actual time.
The 2 systems resolve a less-discussed obstacle of independent, unmanned delivery. Navigation automation systems have actually been developed as well as trialed by numerous completing innovation business, consisting of HD Hyundai, as well as have actually verified a high level of capability. With the appropriate autonomous-navigation innovation, the vessel can drive itself, as well as the bridge group can be transferred to a remote tracking facility.
However, for longer over-the-horizon trips, the equipment-maintenance as well as emergency-response features of a human staff have yet to be automated. Monitoring systems that “play the role of an AI crew member” are an action in that instructions.
“With the commercialization of this engine automation solution, we are one step closer to the era of the world’s first ‘unmanned ship’ in the field of large merchant ships,” claimed HD Hyundai in a declaration.
“The advent of the era of autonomous ships based on artificial intelligence and digital technology is inevitable,” included HD Korea Shipbuilding & & Marine Engineering Executive Director Kwon Byeong- hun.
