Autonomous ship from the port ops perspective
what happens when an autonomous car crashes into you?
Then I say :
1.fuck U ROBOT followed by
- Shit happens.
Have You like others already done it , hit the ignore button near my avatar??
Apparently there is an illegal aspect to drone ships tooâŚ
Narcos will not care for ColRegs, but even state-owned unmanned unobstrusively painted reconaissance / security drones that will be increasingly deployed in busy waters (think of baltic), potentially posing a danger for small ships / boats, may result in interesting legal deliberations, if they can be traced to their respective owners at all after an accident and donât conveniently âvanishâ.
Things are happening in the world of USVs:
Not clear is it being shipped to Australia or its driving itself?
She hitched a ride and has arrived safely in Fremantle:
They have now activated order for Reach Remote 3 & 4:
Read the full press release here: https://reachsubsea.no/reach-subsea-asa-orders-reachâŚ/
Sheâll be operating from a base in Onslow:
Riviera - News Content Hub - Marine accident branch investigates collision between CTV and USV
I had not seen the incident reported anywhere - this will be interesting (cut from MAIB)âŚ
In Norway the Reach Remote 1 has operated entirely without crew for the first time:
Here the ship Reach Remote sails without a crew. Photo: Reach Subsea
PS: Long article from NRK (In Norwegian) with more about autonomous ships and how future seafarers see the development. (No paywall)
That is such a small problem to worry about. These companies are not going to spend billions to create autonomous ships and not have piracy issues figured out. I imagine if someone boarded illegally there will be security measures in place to deal with them.
Autonomous ships are coming maybe faster than we originally thought. Ship goes for sea bouy to sea bouy and has a docking team board initially. Eventually the ship will go from dock to dock without any humans.
what percent of total costs are the humans?
Relevant cost or trivial?
Think about a ship and everything on it having to do with the crew.
Lifeboats, FRB, Fire Fighting ensembles, gear, galley equipment, food, staterooms, gym, loungesâŚ..on and on. On an automonous ship it will be the engine room only. All of the navigation computers AI can go somewhere easily. Salaries would also be non existent.
Sometimes the writers get overwhelmed by the hype. Think of the hotel load on the shipâs generators compared to the main engine. How is it going to have emissions 5-15 percent of those of a manned ship?
Unless they are comparing it to a ship duplicating the following experiment:
UK during WW11
Scientists from Cambridge University fed themselves and other volunteers one egg, one pound (450 g) of meat and four ounces (110 g) of fish a week; one-quarter imperial pint (140 mL) of milk a day; four ounces (110 g) of margarine; and unlimited amounts of potatoes, vegetables and wholemeal bread weeks of intensive outdoor exercise simulated the strenuous wartime physical work Britons would likely have to perform.
The scientists found that the subjectsâ health and performance remained very good after three months; the only negative results were the increased time needed for meals to consume the necessary calories from bread and potatoes, and what they described as a âremarkableâ increase in flatulence from the large amount of starch in the diet. The scientists also noted that their faeces had increased by 250% in volume.
.When can we expect the first autonomous oil tanker?
Is A1 going to drive these things remotely and how is A1 going to learn?- By experience?
These are going to be expensive vessels. Every ship that sails has a deficiency or develops one on a voyage that is remedied by shipâs staff. These autonomous ships are going to have to be prepared with the same care as a space launch.
Iâm not a Luddite and I can see a more sinister use of autonomous vessels as submersibles and the days of our nuclear deterrent remaining hidden in the vastness of the oceans are numbered. Unmanned vessels can lie undetected for months at known choke points then stalk a passing submarine and attack without being detected until it is too late.
Divide 20,000 TEU by 20 crew
Still waiting for the unmanned power source to cross oceans.
It is NOT crew cost only that counts:
To put it in simple terms:
Versus:
Just the difference in windage factor would save $$ Mln. per year in fuel costs.
There would still be âcrew costâ but the âcrewâ would be fewer in number, would be sitting ashore and watching several vessels from one remote control room.
The technology to have unmanned engine control rooms for 72 hrs is already there and have been for years.
Stretching that enough to make âport to portâ for most voyages is not rocket science.
Auto Crossing, Auto Docking, even Auto mooring and Auto charging connection for electric fjord-crossing ferries has been in use for some years on Ro/Pax ferries in Norway:
OK so this is short trips and the ferries are NOT âcrewlessâ, as they carry passengers and yes they call at the same ports every time.
But it proves what it is possible with existing technology.
PS: Even if these ferries only take 30 - 35 min. per trip they have far more port calls and even cover longer distance per year than many vessels in commercial trade.
Short trip into own dock at each end using electric power certainly works.
As you said nothing needed to be invented for that to work
OK, sir - you present a picture of a very streamlined concept vessel and a more conventional VLCC (in an appalling color) with the comment that: âJust the reduction in windage factor would save $$âŚâ
Is that concept vessel carrying the same container load that the VLCC is? If so, how would you load & unload it? The windage improvement to the VLCC by removing the bridge/house wouldnât seem to be significant.
Hartley
Removing the wheelhouse wouldnât make any difference to the box boat except the pilot might be a bit put out when he/she joins by helicopter or maybe ship follows the pilot boat in. Making fast some tugs is going to be an interesting prospect.
So far the trials of autonomous ships hav been with a flag state exercising its right in its own waters. A vessel registered in say the Marshall Islands owned by a company not easily distinguished from a food truck owner in Istanbul might have trouble sailing from New York to Charleston even though it was not contravening the Jones Act.