Ship&Offshore | Ausgabe 05/2022
Unmanned vessel fleet for robotic assistance services
UXV Robots-as-a-service, big data, sensor fusion, artificial intelligence and robotic swarms are key components for future maritime operations. A novel platform, which interconnects surface, aerial, underwater and crawling vessels (UXVs), has been set up by the “Maritime Technologies and Biomimetics” team at Hamburg’s Fraunhofer CML in order to research and demonstrate such services. The projects that are incorporated in the “Smart Ocean” initiative are described here by Johannes Oeffner, Team Leader “Maritime Technologies and Biomimetics”, Fraunhofer CML...