meeting Imtech marine

Tuesday, I had a meeting at Imtech Marine in the harbour of Rotterdam. 

Mart Hurkmans is the coordinator for research and development at imtech marine and developed a vision for his company to build unmanned autonomous ships (without emission, so green)

we discussed some techniques to improve my boat, for example at the start when I build my boat I already wasn't happy about using servo motors. But at imtech they knew a technique which only uses energy when the position of rudder or sail needs to be changed and after this doesn't consume energy any more.

Also robosail and the university of technology in delft (faculty: maritieme technologie) can help a lot with implementing the autonomous sailing behavior.

also we stumbled upon a case scenario which doesn't has a solution yet.
what if something breaks on board for example a sensor dies? I hope to find a solution for this in the upcoming weeks.

At this moment I'm only working on decentralized systems which communicate with each other but also a zeppelin above all sailing vessels could help to get an overview on the sea. If this is a valuable insight? I will find out in the next weeks as well.

The main goal for imtech is to establish continuity in the projects all over the Netherlands. So that the knowledge we build up doesn't get lost when I stop working on this. To establish this I connected Mart Hurkmans with my coach on the TUE so maybe next semester this project can be continued with Imtech as a client and in this way make Imtech as a knowledge library for all other projects in the future.