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Robotic service concepts for the port of tomorrow: Developed via a small-scale demonstration testbed
Publikationstyp
Conference Paper
Date Issued
2020-11
Sprache
English
Author(s)
Schneider, Vincent Emanuel
Sarpong, Benjamin
Burmeister, Hans-Christoph
Article Number
9317486
Citation
European Navigation Conference (ENC 2020)
Contribution to Conference
Publisher DOI
Scopus ID
ISBN of container
9783944976273
The development of Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs) has been impelled in recent decades by oceanographic and military applications. USVs are ideally suited to perform routine tasks in port environments - such as collecting bathymetry data - and can act as a platform to develop new applications for the port of the future. This paper elaborates possible robotic service concepts for a port environment and describes the construction of a demonstration vehicle as a modular platform as well as the integration of the necessary software infrastructure in order to show the complete service pipeline. A key component of the development is the involvement of practitioners and potential end users from the port authority of Europe's 3rd largest seaport- the port of Hamburg.