NAVTRONIC
Navigational system for efficient maritime transport
| Coordinatore |
Organization address
address: Via della Bufalotta, 378 contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | Non specificata |
| Sito del progetto | http://www.navtronic-project.eu |
| Totale costo | 5˙063˙257 € |
| EC contributo | 3˙577˙210 € |
| Programma | FP7-TRANSPORT
Specific Programme "Cooperation": Transport (including Aeronautics) |
| Code Call | FP7-SST-200 |
| Anno di inizio | 2009 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2009-10-01 - 2013-07-31 |
Partecipanti
| # | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
ADVANCED COMPUTER SYSTEMS ASC S.P.A.
Organization address
address: Via della Bufalotta, 378 contact info |
IT (ROMA) | coordinator | 1˙353˙578.00 |
| 2 |
MARINE & REMOTE SENSING SOLUTIONS LIMITED
Organization address
address: OCEAN HOUSE - BLACKBUSCHE BUSINESS PARK contact info |
UK (YATEKEY) | participant | 814˙300.00 |
| 3 |
DNV GL AS
Organization address
address: VERITASVEIEN 1 contact info |
NO (HOVIK) | participant | 450˙414.00 |
| 4 |
NATO SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION
Organization address
address: BOULEVARD LEOPOLD III contact info |
BE (BRUXELLES) | participant | 443˙940.00 |
| 5 |
EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY
Organization address
address: Rue Mario Nikis 8-10 contact info |
FR (PARIS) | participant | 243˙600.00 |
| 6 |
CARNIVAL PLC
Organization address
address: "Carnival House, Gainsford Street 5" contact info |
UK (LONDON) | participant | 145˙800.00 |
| 7 |
UNIRESEARCH BV
Organization address
address: Elektronicaweg 16c contact info |
NL (DELFT) | participant | 125˙578.00 |
| 8 |
BW GAS ASA
Organization address
address: Drammensveien 106 contact info |
NO (OSLO) | participant | 0.00 |
| 9 |
NATO Undersea Research Centre
Organization address
address: Viale San Bartolomeo 400 contact info |
IT (La Spezia) | participant | 0.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
'There is a strong interest in the maritime community to optimize sailing time (expected time of arrival), reduce fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions and minimize maintenance cost. The objective of this project is to develop a sail planning system to help sea masters optimize these criteria. The proposed solution mimics the current human sail planning process. It will use ship specific data collection and real-time local and remote observations (3D-radar, Earth Observation data, etc.) combined with several state-of-the-art nowcast and forecast numerical models. It will monitor actual ship performance and assimilate this information in the sail plan optimization process. The access and systematic exploitation of this ground truth information will provide the unique capability of building "system experience", constantly improving the performance of different sub-models used in the sail plan optimizer. This will also reduce the sensitivity to ocean and weather forecast errors. The system will automatically and continuously compute and communicate optimized sail plans to a vessel. All relevant information justifying the results will be sent simultaneously (as for example a storm system, dangerous wave zones, security and other relevant information). The execution of the Navtronic system requires a central information centre that will be realized for exchanging ship relevant information and providing optimized real-time sail plans. The central information centre will be part of the GRID distributed processing reciprocity. The Navtronic project is highly end-user driven – the largest market players in the maritime community are partners and support the project with human resources, vessels and infrastructures for tests and evaluations.'
Introduzione (Teaser)
A new navigation support system for optimising the route planning of ships is being developed in Europe. It will not only save energy but also make shipping cheaper and greener.
Descrizione progetto (Article)
Ship owners want to reduce the sailing time of their ships and exposure to adverse weather conditions, thus cutting fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. In order to accomplish this goal, ship masters need a system to plan their sailing routes that can optimise a number of complex criteria.
Designing this new method is the goal of the 'Navigational system for efficient maritime transport' (http://www.navtronic-project.eu (NAVTRONIC)) project, funded by the EU. The project's overall strategy is to assess all types of real-time information that are capable of improving the sailing planning operation.
Based on this analysis, the NAVTRONIC project has developed a new generation of route-planning models for ships. It also improved the reliability of weather forecasts for shipping, along with developing better models for fuel consumption and emission reduction.
The project team has identified the sailing planning requirements of the main end users, transforming them in technical specification for the mathematical models and algorithms of the routing system.
The architecture of the navigation system has been refined and finalised a number of times during the project, and all the essential sub-models have been developed.
In the final part of the project, a fully operational prototype was developed. In order to test the system, the Navtronic system has been installed on ships operated by different end users.
This trial system includes an On-Shore Control Centre to host a suite of computational intensive optimisation algorithms, an Off-shore Integration Platform installed on the ships to acquire real-time parameters, and a Graphical User Interface installed on the ship-bridge and in fleet-management offices.
The prototype system has been tested onboard ships for about a year. During these sea trials, the feedback from the users has been used to improve and validate the prototype for planning the sailing routes of ships.
Beneficiaries of the system will include the EU's freight and passenger transport sectors, citizens, and climate change stakeholders and policymakers.