The company achievements include developing NAVDEC navigational decision support system, the world’s first navigational tool to perform information functions and those typical of decision support systems. Its innovative functionalities, significantly extending the performance of devices generally carried by ships, have been a subject of patent at home and internationally (patent no EP2504719). NAVDEC was commercialized both on merchant and navy market.
Successful commercialization enables further investments. Currently the company developing autonomous navigation system. It was tested in quasi-real condition. The company has a access to the research centre, where over 10 models of ships in scale 1:24 are available. Now we are in the process of integration navigation system, image recognition system, tethered drone and Vertical Take Off and Landing - VTOL. Looking for Partners in autonomous shipping projects.
The expertise offered includes:
- data acquisition, integration, fusion and sharing;
- analysis and assessment of navigational situations based on simulations performed using real data and modern computer technologies;
- navigation-related decision support in collision situations via a shipboard decision support system installed on the navigational bridge of merchant;
- vessels (sea-going and inland shipping), leisure boats (e.g. sailing ships, motor yachts), and as a component of land-based vessel traffic services systems (VTS, VTMS, VTMIS, RIS);
- analysis and assessment of marine accidents at sea and on inland waterways via a system intended for experts working for maritime courts;
- marine officer training courses in Collision Regulations via application of specialised modules of navigational simulators (e.g. ship-handling, ECDIS);
- design and construction of computer systems supporting decision making processes and actions taken by navigators on board ships and in land-based centres;
- autonomous systems and autonomous navigation.
The group is interested in cooperation in:
- automatic navigational data acquisition and distribution;
- analysis of navigational information and generation of solutions to collision situations accounting for the Collision Regulations and marine good practice;
- autonomous navigation of ships;
- automation of decision-making processes in autonomous and remote controlled objects;
- interaction with a navigator supervising the system;
- communication, co-operation and co-ordination of actions with other ships and land-based centres responsible for vessel traffic management (VTS and others);
- automation of transport processes in maritime shipping
- machine learning;
- soft computing;
- image recognition.
Additional information (e.g. previous experience in Framework Programmes, experience related to innovation projects, prizes, participation in international organisations):
1. SME Instrument, Proposal No: 684803 - NAVDEC - SME-1, Topic: IT-1-2015-1 - Small business innovation research for Transport.
2. POIR.04.01.04-00-0025/16, Topic: application projects, AVAL – Autonomous Vessel with an Air Look.
Thematic area - Cluster in Horizon Europe: 5. Climate, Energy and Mobility