Building Custom Configurable Vessels for Autonomy and AI Research on Demand

Future ships will be greener and safer, because they will be self-driving. But testing self-driving ships in the ocean is complicated and dangerous. For that reason, we invented a new way of building smaller models of ships, to safely tests these new technologies. Building ships our way is cheaper and easier than older methods and makes models reusable for future tests.
In this project, we will talk to people using model ships to develop self-driving ships, to see if they would buy models build our way to focus more on creating safe self-driving technology instead of building ship models. If everyone used the same models, it would also be easier for researchers to work together.
Finding out if we can start a business is also great for our partner Springboard Atlantic, who try to help getting knowledge from universities into Canadian companies, helping the economy in Atlantic Canada.

Faculty Supervisor:

Andrew Vardy

Student:

Partner:

Springboard Atlantic Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Water; Artificial Intelligence; Advanced Manufacturing

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program: