HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering introduced on Dec. 18 that it held a workshop from Dec. 17-18 at HD Hyundai World R&D Heart in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, to current the first-year analysis achievements of the MIT Maritime Consortium.
This consortium was launched in March this yr with the Massachusetts Institute of Expertise (MIT), Greek delivery firm Capital, and American Bureau of Transport (ABS) as the primary members, aiming for technological innovation and international decarbonization. The workshop was attended by roughly 180 individuals, together with consultants from consortium member corporations resembling MIT, Capital, ABS, Greek delivery firm Dorian, Singapore Institute of Marine Research, and UK renewable power funding firm Foresight Group.
In the course of the workshop, main achievements from the primary yr of analysis performed by December this yr had been introduced, together with synthetic intelligence (AI)-based autonomous navigation options, cybersecurity options, development of SMR-powered vessel growth, and 3D printing-based manufacturing know-how.
Specifically, the consortium chosen vessels to be geared up with HiNAS Management from Avikus, HD Hyundai’s autonomous navigation specialist affiliate, and agreed to confirm gasoline effectivity enchancment results by this sooner or later. The consortium additionally accomplished the event of a prototype AI mannequin for cyber menace detection and took part within the manufacturing of the SMR-Powered Vessel Security Guide revealed by MIT in October to current requirements for commercializing maritime nuclear know-how.
The consortium additionally mentioned know-how growth roadmap for the subsequent three years and future core applied sciences for the shipbuilding and offshore trade after 2030. Specifically, they exchanged opinions on decarbonization within the international market, gasoline effectivity enchancment requirements, digital transformation, and cyber menace response methods.
Themis Sapsis, director of MIT’s Heart for Ocean Engineering, mentioned, “The structural adjustments occurring within the shipbuilding and offshore trade on account of strengthened environmental laws in know-how, gasoline manufacturing and provide usually are not issues that any single firm or establishment can remedy alone,” including, “As cooperation is required that encompasses all points of engineering, together with AI know-how and strengthened laws, MIT may also focus its capabilities to create significant outcomes.”
Jang Kwang-pil, director of HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering’s Future Expertise Analysis Institute, said, “We’ll additional dedicate ourselves to consortium undertaking analysis and growth, together with establishing requirements to confirm the gasoline effectivity enchancment results of AI-integrated autonomous navigation options,” and “We’ll try to contribute to international technological innovation growth and decarbonization primarily based on international shipbuilding cooperation.”
In the meantime, HD Hyundai is increasing cooperative relationships with prestigious abroad universities by instructional cooperation and discussion board internet hosting, along with MIT. In July final yr, it signed an academic cooperation MOU with the College of Michigan and Seoul Nationwide College for shipbuilding trade expertise growth, and as a follow-up measure, held the Korea-U.S. Shipbuilding Cooperation Knowledgeable Discussion board at HD Hyundai World R&D Heart in June this yr.
