Avikus, a subsidiary of Hyundai, the South Korean manufacturing giant, will debut its new autonomous boating and docking system at the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show, starting Oct. 26.
At the show, Avikus will introduce its Neuboat, an autonomous system using artificial intelligence for the recreational boating market. It uses the Avikus Navigation Assistant System and the Avikus Docking Assistant System. Those systems let the boat recognize and assess water situations in real time through deep learning and sensor fusion algorithms, without any human interaction.
For cruising, the system creates and maintains an optimal route for safe autonomous navigation. An Augmented Reality screen displays nearby risk levels in different color boxes. The human captain on board can control the system from anywhere on the boat with a mobile device.
The system also uses what Avikus calls an integrated cognitive system to dock itself. It has an Avikus 3D surround-view system and collision-warning alarm to avoid problems.
Avikus will hold live demos at the show for boat and electronic manufacturers at The Port Marina, just off the 17th Street Causeway and across from the Broward Convention Center. It also will have a booth at the Bahia Mar Yachting Center where the public can see the displays and cameras that make the autonomous systems work.
Avikus was started in January, 2021, by the Hyundai Heavy Industries Group, a large shipbuilder. The company wanted to jumpstart the introduction of autonomous solutions for commercial and recreational boats.
This summer Avikus was used for what it says was the first autonomous navigation system on a ship to cross an ocean. It controlled a large merchant ship that sailed 14,000 miles from the Gulf of Mexico to South Korea in 33 days. The company says the system recognized nearby ships, and avoided collisions, more than 100 times on the trip.
Avikus now has orders for its autonomous system on 23 large ships from the world’s major builders.
Read more at http://avikus.ai and click on the link below to see a video of Avikus on action:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua8U9BEPQi8
