{"id":10262,"date":"2020-05-21T22:40:19","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T19:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/watch-nyk-test-remote-navigation-of-a-tugboat\/10262\/"},"modified":"2020-05-21T22:40:19","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T19:40:19","slug":"watch-nyk-test-remote-navigation-of-a-tugboat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/watch-nyk-test-remote-navigation-of-a-tugboat\/10262\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch NYK test remote navigation of a tugboat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Japanese shipping major NYK has tested remote navigation of a tugboat as a part of the Japanese government\u2019s Sea Trial Project on Remote Control Navigation, which aims to establish necessary requirements for the realization of autonomous ships.&nbsp; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The test was carried out within the Tokyo Bay using Yoshino Maru tugboat, operated by Shin-Nippon Kaiyosha Corporation, an NYK Group company.<\/p>\n<p>The tugboat, equipped with a manned remotely controlled system, was operated remotely from an operation center in the city of Nishinomiya in Hyogo prefecture approximately 400 kilometers away. <\/p>\n<p>During the trials, the tugboat was maneuvered approximately 12 kilometers in Tokyo Bay between an area off Honmoku and an area off the port of Yokosuka.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"oembed-component\" data-type=\"youtube\" data-cookieconsent=\"marketing\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><em>&#8220;The operator in the remote operation center was able to use sensors and cameras equipped to the tugboat to recognize surrounding conditions and created a route plan and action plan (collision avoidance route plan). The operator shared the plans with the tugboat captain, who then approved them,&#8221; <\/em>NYK said.<\/p>\n<p>Moving forward, NYK and its group companies plan to work on overcoming ship-to-shore communication issues that were revealed during the experiment and further improve the system.<\/p>\n<p>NYK revealed that it aims to start remote navigation tests using domestic coastal ships within this year. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>We will continue to work with our partners to develop technology for large vessels in the future,&#8221;<\/em> the company concluded.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.offshore-energy.biz\/watch-nyk-test-remote-navigation-of-a-tugboat\/\">Watch NYK test remote navigation of a tugboat<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.offshore-energy.biz\">Offshore Energy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>world maritime news<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese shipping major NYK has tested remote navigation of a tugboat as a part of the Japanese government\u2019s Sea Trial Project on Remote Control Navigation, which aims to establish necessary requirements for the realization of autonomous ships.&nbsp; The test was carried out within the Tokyo Bay using Yoshino Maru tugboat, operated by Shin-Nippon Kaiyosha Corporation, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[1655,247,1958,1193,1632,2860],"class_list":["post-10262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-navigation","tag-nyk","tag-remote","tag-test","tag-tugboat","tag-watch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/10263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}