The goal of the AUTOASSESS project is to employ state-of-the-art AI and robotics to remove human surveyors out of harm’s way, while at the same time obtaining an accurate, repeatable, and quick vessel inspection.
The overall objective of the AUTOASSESS project is to remove human surveyors and workers from dangerous and dirty confined areas of offshore structures by employing an autonomous robotic system that exceeds human capabilities and is able to perform maritime vessel classifications. The specific objectives are the following:
1. Autonomous Exploration and Overall Assessment of Confined Ballast Water Tanks.
2. Comprehensive Inspection of Ballast Tanks & Cargo Holds, including NDT Measurements.
3. Autonomous aerial NDT with ultrasonic-testing hardware less than half the mass of currently available solutions, cm-level position accuracy and NDT measurement accuracy.
4. ML system capable of detecting >95% of defects across different vessels in a range of 20+ years of age.
5. Transforming Robotic Scans of Ballast Tanks and Cargo Holds into Actionable Data.
6. Decision Support System capable of planning and initiation missions, and post-processing past missions.
7. Quantify repeatability and accuracy of autonomous inspections via 3 demonstration events.