Japanese university orders power prediction database

The system has already been available at the university’s Maritime and Ocean Digital Engineering Laboratory (MODE).

The Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Group-developed MiPoLin uses more than 1,200 diverse tank test results and over 420 vessels’ hull forms accumulated over decades of testing time at the Test Basin owned by MHI in Nagasaki City, in Japan. 

Mitsubishi’s large database and shipbuilding know-how make it possible to estimate the propulsion performance with high accuracy and to generate the hull forms which can be used for initial design and performance evaluation of the ships. The technology has been on the market since August 2022, aimed at solving problems related to the maritime industry.

The University’s MODE is a collaboration research programme established in October 2022 by seven companies including Mitsubishi Shipbuilding and is working towards building a simulation platform. The large-scale tank test database provided by MiPoLin can be used to build a model of the simulation platform planned by MODE.