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Enabling Harbor to Harbor Autonomous Shipping in Sea Ice Conditions

Programme
Discovery
Programme Reference
20-D-T-TEC-02-c
Prime Contractor
Finnish Geospatial Research Institute
Start Date
End Date
Status
Closed
Country
Finland
Enabling Harbor to Harbor Autonomous Shipping in Sea Ice Conditions
Description

The ENHANCE (Enabling Harbor to Harbor Autonomous Situational Awareness in Sea Ice Conditions) project is aimed to study How to improve the autonomous navigation and situational awareness in the maritime domain by utilising ML and AI concepts. For this end, we utilise both traditional RGB cameras as well as IR cameras to obtain as diverse as possible data set of sea-ice conditions to train a ML model that can identify an ice tracks and objects, such as buoys, that can help in navigation. In addition to the camera concepts, we study the impact of possible multipath impacts caused by sea-ice on traditional GNSS receivers. As with the ML data sets, the number of studies focusing on behaviour of the GNSS signals in maritime winter navigation are limited, thus additional information is needed to better understand possible problems that will be encountered when designing a fully autonomous vessel.

Application Domain
Navigation
Technology Domain
12 - Ground Station Systems and Networks
13 - Automation, Telepresence & Robotics
Competence Domain
05 - End-to-end RF / Optical Systems / Products for Navigation, Comm., Remote Sensing
06 - Life / Physical Science Payloads / Life Support / Robotics and Automation
08 - Ground Data Systems / Mission Operations
09 - Digital Engineering for Space Missions
Keywords
Autonomous Shipping
autonomous navigation
ML
AI
Initial TRL
TRL N/A
Target TRL
TRL N/A
Achieved TRL
TRL N/A
Public Document
Executive Summary