Takuya Nakajima, a graduate student at the University of Tokyo's Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, Brian Moser, Associate Professor, This was confirmed by a simulation conducted by Professor Kazuo Hiekata and others.The research group believes that the social implementation of autonomous ships may be brought forward by 10 years.
8% of the world's logistics is transported by ship, and 8% of ship accidents are caused by human error. Research and development has started all over the world.
According to the University of Tokyo, the research group has modeled the industrial structure related to the introduction of autonomous ships, and is working with shipping companies, shipyards/manufacturers, and policy makers as agents to improve the maturity of related technologies through research and development. Manufacturing and operational experience were incorporated as numerical models.
Autonomous ship technologies are classified into berthing/berthing, navigation/collision avoidance, hull/engine monitoring, and 12 different types of autonomous ships are assumed by combining the automation levels of each technology.
Next, considering new shipbuilding strategies of shipping companies, technology investment strategies of shipyards/manufacturers, subsidies for policy makers, and introduction regulations as decision-making items, we will change these in various ways to achieve the target from 2022 to 2050 A simulation was performed assuming that
As a result, it was found that the combination of subsidies for research and development and demonstration experiments with deregulation greatly accelerated the realization of autonomous ships, and that the timing of introduction changed by more than 10 years depending on the combination of decision-making. .
