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Report

Teaser, summary, work performed and final results

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - SEDNA (Safe maritime operations under extreme conditions: the Arctic case)

Teaser

Summary

Maritime traffic in the Arctic region is rapidly increasing. But there has been a huge increase in marine casualties in
this region due to its extremely harsh environment and the severe safety challenges for shipsâ€™ navigation teams.
SEDNA will develop an innovative and integrated risk-based approach to safe Arctic navigation, ship design and
operation, to enable European maritime interests to confidently fully embrace the Arcticâ€™s significant and growing
shipping opportunities, while safeguarding its natural environment.
More specifically SEDNA will create and demonstrate the improved safety outcomes of:
1. The Safe Arctic Bridge, a human-centered operational environment for the ice-going ship bridge using augmented
reality technology to provide improved situational awareness and decision making whilst enabling integration with
new key information layers developed by the project using innovative big data management techniques.
2. Integrated dynamic meteorological and oceanographic data with real time ship monitoring and ice movement
predictions to provide reliable decision making for safe and efficient Arctic voyage optimisation.
3. Anti-icing engineering solutions, using nature inspired approaches, to prevent ice formation on vessels, eliminating
ice as a ship stability and working-environment hazard.
4. Risk-based design framework to ensure that vessel design is connected to all key hazards of ship operation in the
Arctic. The holistic treatment of the ship design, operating regime and environment will improve safety and minimise
impact over the entire life cycle.
5. A CEN Workshop Agreement on a process to systematically address safety during bunkering of methanol as a
marine fuel along with safety zone guidance for three bunkering concepts: Truck to Ship, Shore to Ship and Ship to
Ship.
To maximise impact, SEDNA will provide formal inputs to international regulatory regimes regarding regulation
adaptation requirements for its safety solutions.

Work performed

Work has progressed satisfactorily on all work packages.

The main tasks and results achieved so far include: -
The development of new approaches to risk-based ship design based on Bayesian modelling of prior knowledge and accident data that required identification and categorisation of suitable data and sources.
We have built novel anti-icing solutions, both active and passive, using a variety or bio and non-bio inspired techniques.
A collaboration between 4 partners has produced an augmented arctic ships bridge that supports situational awareness of mariners by overlaying routing and weather data into a unified display.
The MET Office have produced new, world leading, weather forecasting models and products, developed in response to detailed user specifications gathered from dedicated workshops with real data users.
BMT, UCL and CHALMERS have progressed a 3-pronged approach to arctic voyage planning, using a combination of ship model and/or data-driven intelligence to inform route suitability and characteristics - two types of naval architecture inspired models have been developed by partner universities, while a novel bottom-up, neural model to advise on and predict route behaviour has been built by an industrial partner. A new testbed to benchmark and compare these approaches has been designed.
In parallel, we have produced a large report on how best to support safe arctic navigation via our codified arctic navigation knowledge base.
We have built the first prototypes of fused AIS and weather data using big data technologies to further support navigation by exporting the data to route-developing partners
The first administrative steps have been taken in out standardisation task with CEN on how to formulate stakeholder agreement on the use of low-flashpoint fuels such as methanol in the arctic.

Final results

Several strands of this work are beyond state-of-the-art, many of them because they are being used in this arctic content for the first time. These include; the whole notion of risk-based design of arctic vessels; using augmented visualisations on a bridge to help a navigator who has an even greater cognitive load than normal; voyage planning tools customised for the arctic; the sensorisation of vessels and the dynamic use of the data collected to inform navigation; and completely new anti-icing solutions. Others are more prosaic in nature. SEDNAs work on arctic weather forecasting will allow us to validate the models in this context for the first time. Similarly, the broad issue of safer arctic navigation has to be fully described and understood before anyone can offer complete solutions and SEDNA has made significant progress on this topic by compiling a large report on what is currently known.

We are planning right now (Jan 2019) on how to further integrate and evaluate all the navigation-based work in SEDNA and specifically how to demo the anti-icing work and how to validate and commercially exploit our new weather forecasting products. We intend, where possible, to install and test our technology on arctic-going vessels and will back this up where needed with full-mission simulator sessions.

SEDNA is very timely given the increased prominence of the climate change debate and our response to the changing environment. We hope to show and reassure the public that arctic commerce can be progressed both safely and cleanly and that there is at least some upside to the new availability of commercial transits of the arctic in that cargo in the future will be able to be moved more speedily and at lower cost to where it is needed.