INDUSTRY FOCUS Aerospace & Marine
Sea Machines’s autonomous and wireless-helm technology at Damen
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oston-based Sea Machines Robotics, a developer of autonomous command and control systems for commercial vessels, will incorporate its autonomous and wireless-helm systems in Damen Shipyards Group’s global vessels. The partnership will increase the accessibility of Sea Machines systems in marine and maritime markets, with further inroads into commercial vessels. In addition to installing the autonomous-command and wireless- helm systems, Damen will train users to operate Sea Machines’s systems via the company’s in-house simulator. It will generate a realistic marine domain in which employees and the company’s clients can learn to use Sea Machines’s user interface and autonomous-command capabilities.
These capabilities include autonomous transit behaviour and collaborative autonomy for unmanned daughter craft operations, and pre-confi gured pattern autonomy for task-based workboat missions. Sea Machines autonomy incorporates obstacle detection and collision avoidance based on COLREGs for dynamic-domain operations, as well as highly valuable remote-command, remote-machinery and payload control, which allows shore-based command of vessels and on-board equipment. Customers can leverage reduced-crew or unmanned vessel operations which increases the productivity of persistent workboat operations, or remove personnel from hazardous marine work environments. Across all industries, autonomous systems automate manual, repetitive and
tedious tasks, allowing human operators to focus on higher-level operations with reduced risk. “This signifi cant development sends a clear signal to the industry that autonomous marine technology is rapidly gaining adoption and is in demand among commercial operators,” said Sea Machines’s CEO Michael G. Johnson. “We see a future where most, if not all, newly-constructed vessels will feature autonomous technology as standard. This partnership will accelerate Sea Machines’s position as the go-to provider of advanced marine technology, and is securing Damen as an innovative industry leader for years to come.” Sea Machines’s SM Series of products, which includes both the SM200 and SM300, provides marine operators a new era of remote, task-driven, computer- guided vessel control.
Sea Machines offers an intuitive user interface and modern autonomous-command capabilities
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30 May 2021 | Automation
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