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Indian Register certifies workboat with collision avoidance software
Indian Register of Shipping has approved a new SAR and patrol workboat with autonomous collision avoidance capabilities built for patrol, search and rescue applications
Accurate Industrial Control has built and tested a new workboat with autonomous collision avoidance capabilities ready for various maritime and offshore markets.
The Pune, India-headquartered technology developer contracted Mumbai-based SHM Shipyard to build this 13-m workboat ready to test its software.
Indian Register of Shipping (IRS) certified the workboat and approved the software after sea trials took place in the Arabian Sea off Karwar, India.
Accurate’s intelligent situational-awareness and collision avoidance (ISACA) technology was tested to ensure it achieved class certification IRS AUTN 4-R(N) and met IMOs International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea (COLREGs) rules.
ISACA uses feeds from multiple wheelhouse sensors including radar, GNSS for positioning, echo sounder, electro-optical cameras, AIS and inertial navigation.
It combines and analyses data streams for situation awareness, all-round monitoring and target tracking in complex maritime environments and hazard-free autopilot.
Accurate director of artificial intelligence and robotics, Dharmesh Popatlal Gala, said the Indian company had received orders and interest for both newbuild and retrofit versions of the ISACA equipped boat for commercial and naval markets.
This software and these 13-m workboats can be used for patrol, search and rescue (SAR) applications, survey and harbour operations.
“We see massive growth potential for our collision avoidance software and autonomous navigation solutions to be supplied at scale into Europe, the Middle East, India and Asia,” said Mr Gala.
“We are seeing interest from navies and coastguards, ports and habours and the offshore market.”
Accurate has further built a smaller 5-m autonomous SAR craft at the Sumit Shipyard in Kochi with an ISACA tech stack.
Mr Gala thinks autonomous collision avoidance technology can help reduce operating costs and crewing requirements for workboats.
“Autonomous boats using the ISACA solutions can replace crews and provide 24/7 monitoring and persistent awareness at a fraction of the operational cost,” he said.
“This matters more than ever in the naval arena where threats are changing and the nature of warfare evolving.”
All according to Accurate, ISACA is directly compatible with Mercury, Cox and any CAN/MODBUS based propulsion systems and can integrate also non-digital propulsion employing appropriate actuators, enabling autonomous control of steering and propulsion of wide class of vessels.
It fuses data to detect, classify and track multiple vessels and objects simultaneously while assessing potential risks.
ISACA generates and continuously optimises routes, patrol patterns and mission plans as conditions change and it executes safe manoeuvres in accordance with COLREGS.
It converts navigation decisions into steering and throttle commands while compensating for wind, waves and currents via the integrated propulsion interface.
Operators can monitor vessel status, sensor feeds and missions in real time, and manually override vessel controls when required.
Accurate said applications include: port and harbour security, infrastructure protection, offshore energy, coastal surveillance, environmental monitoring, hydrographic survey, inspection missions, border security and maritime defence operations.
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