Description du projet
Lancement de la prochaine génération de navires autonomes en Europe
Bien que l’Asie ait dominé l’industrie de la construction navale pendant plusieurs décennies grâce à des coûts de fabrication moins élevés, l’Europe a conservé une importante part de marché dans le secteur des navires spécialisés de haute qualité. Soutenu par l’expertise industrielle et technologique des principales sociétés maritimes européennes, le projet AUTOSHIP, financé par l’UE, a pour objectif de construire et de faire la démonstration de deux navires auto-navigants qui serviront de prototypes pour une flotte de navires totalement autonomes de la prochaine génération. Le projet comprend le réseau de contrôle à terre et l’ensemble technologique nécessaires à une navigation autonome et à des communications sécurisées. Deux essais pilotes seront réalisés pour démontrer le transport de marchandises le long du Corridor Mer du Nord-Baltique. Ce projet renforcera le cluster maritime européen en lançant un marché de plusieurs milliards d’euros, en créant des emplois hautement qualifiés et un transport maritime plus sûr et respectueux de l’environnement.
Objectif
While the shipbuilding market has been advantaging Asian lower-cost manufacturing in the last decades, AUTOSHIP will build around two EU industrial market and leading technology providers, such as Rolls Royce and Kongsberg, to create a stronger European cluster able to thrust a market worth Billions of Euros in the next decade, bringing new high-skilled jobs and a safer and greener transport in Europe.
AUTOSHIP will build and operate 2 R&A vessels and their needed shore control and operation infrastructure, reaching and going over TRL7. Testing will take place during two pilot demonstration campaigns addressing goods mobility from the Baltic Corridor to a major EU seaport and hinterland, which are most relevant areas with growing waterborne transport market demand in EU.
Doing so, it will speed-up the Next Generation of Autonomous Ships, by demonstrating in real environment Short Sea Shipping and Inland Water Ways autonomous vessels. The technology package will include full-autonomous navigation, self-diagnostic, prognostics and operation scheduling, as well as communication technology enabling a prominent level of cyber security and integrating the vessels into upgraded e-infrastructure. In parallel, digital tools and methodologies for design, simulation and cost analysis will be developed for the whole community of autonomous ships.
AUTOSHIP will help ship operators/owners to improve the economy of scale of their investments, to effectively gain competitiveness and renew their fleets, making them more competitive to replace road transport.
The project’s ambitions will leverage on advanced KETs, solid industrial, investment and business worldwide, participation in all major stakeholders’ organisations. The high ambition is to deliver the technology on the market in 5 years boosting ocean and intercontinental unmanned shipping. It is an ambition with a solid base in the involved value-chain and in the financial and commercial commitment discussed in this proposal.
Champ scientifique
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringautomotive engineeringautonomous vehicles
- social sciencessocial geographytransport
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencescomputer security
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringnaval engineeringsea vessels
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IA - Innovation actionCoordinateur
00189 Roma
Italie