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Title:

Concept Development for Autonomous Vehicle Cooperation to Facilitate Navigation in Ice

Agreement Number:

979933

Agreement Value:

$128,110.00

Agreement Date:

Oct 1, 2021 - Sep 30, 2024

Description:

Shipping operations in icy waters entail significant costs, complexity, and risk. This project intends to explore the feasibility and possible advantages of an autonomous surface shipping concept of operations for these conditions. The autonomous vessel will have an on-board sensor suite capable of sensing the immediate ice environment. The vessel will also have available additional small vehicles such as uninhabited aerial vehicles (UAV) or uninhabited underwater vehicles (UUV) that could be deployed for remote sensing of the ice characteristics at some distance from the vessel. The combination of these sensors from autonomous agents working together will be used to build a map and path plan. These data will be transmitted, processed, and displayed to the operator at the Shore Control Centre (SCC). The remote operator will control the vessel and deploy the auxiliary vehicles to obtain the most informative data. The project focuses on humaninterface aspects of the concept.

Organization:

National Research Council Canada

Expected Results:

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.

Location:

Toronto, Ontario, CA M3J 1P3

Reference Number:

172-2021-2022-Q3-979933

Agreement Type:

Grant

Report Type:

Grants and Contributions

Recipient Business Number:

119306736

Recipient Type:

Academia

Recipient's Legal Name:

York University

Federal Riding Name:

Humber River–Black Creek

Federal Riding Number:

35121

Program:

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

Program Purpose:

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.

NAICS Code:

541710