Saitama Institute of Technology has signed a business consignment contract with Kagoshima Sogyo Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Gunma Boat), which operates the Gunma Boat License School.Strengthen technological development for automatic operation and operation of amphibious buses through experiments and cooperation on automatic steering on small vessels.
Saitama Institute of Technology participated in "Development of Amphibious Unmanned Driving Technology-Yamba Smart Mobility-" in the "Technology Development Joint Program for Demonstration Experiments of Unmanned Ships" of the Nippon Foundation.Together with ITbook Technology, a representative of the consortium and a subsidiary of ITbook Holdings, we are jointly developing amphibious unmanned driving and operation technology.
This contract was signed for the realization of the world's first automatic operation and operation of amphibious buses. Cooperate in providing.Both have already started experiments on automatic steering technology using a cruiser owned by a Gunma boat at Kanna Lake in the Shimokubo Dam, which straddles Gunma and Saitama prefectures.Through the cooperation between the two, we aim to efficiently develop automatic steering technology.
Gunma Boat has abundant experience in small vessels through education and license issuance for obtaining a license to operate small vessels, and also owns small vessels.Taking advantage of this, we will cooperate and support the technological development of automatic operation and operation of amphibious buses that Saitama Institute of Technology is working on.At Kanna Lake, we plan to conduct a demonstration experiment of route tracking and obstacle avoidance as an experiment of automatic ship maneuvering technology for small vessels.
