Grants and Contributions:

A machine learning method to support shipping operations in ice: applications to tactical voyage routing and strategic regulatory assessment

983192

$99,464.00

Sep 1, 2021 - Aug 31, 2025

The project aims to create a decision support tool to improve navigation operations in icy waters. The tool will support tactical navigation decisions to optimize routing in icy waters over a time horizon of a few hours to a few days. It can be used to support decision making at different levels of ship autonomy, whether it is to provide on-demand routing advice to the bridge team, to serve as a primary source of tactical decisions that the bridge team can implement, whether onboard or in a remote control center, or to act autonomously to navigate an optimal route from departure to destination. As the degree of autonomy increases, the more the proposed tool must be integrated into the overall navigation system. In the proposed work, the focus is on assisting the crew on board during the planning and execution of a trip.

National Research Council Canada

In the short term, anticipated outcomes will be strengthened collaborations across industry, academia, and government to support research excellence. In the medium term, anticipated outcomes will be the development of new and potentially disruptive technologies with collaborators. In the long term, find collaborative solutions to public policy challenges and create stronger innovation systems.

St. John's, Newfoundland & Labrador, CA A1C 5S7

172-2021-2022-Q3-983192

Grant

Grants and Contributions

107690273

Academia

Memorial University of Newfoundland

St. John's East

10006

Collaborative Science, Technology and Innovation Program - Collaborative R&D Initiatives

Collaborate on multiparty research and development programs to catalyze transformative, high-risk, high-reward research with the potential for game-changing scientific discoveries and technological breakthroughs in priority areas.

541710