CaptainAI

Vandaag was ik voor mijn gezantschap voor de Maritieme Maakindustrie samen met de minister voor Buitenlandse Handel en Ontwikkelingshulp in Hamburg. Met 40.000 deelnemers uit 120 landen is in de havenstad deze week de grootste Europese vakbeurs te vinden, namelijk de Shipbuilding, Machinery & Maritime Technology. Nederland is met haar maritieme sector van wereldfaam uiteraard goed vertegenwoordigd. Voor mij als gezant bood deze beurs de uitgelezen mogelijkheid om mensen uit de sector te spreken, internationaal contacten te leggen en zaken te agenderen in het belang van Nederland. Hier in Hamburg zijn de innovaties te zien die ons land veilig kunnen houden. Hier wordt verduurzaming in de praktijk gebracht en hier werkt onze scheepsbouw aan ons verdienvermogen door over de grens zaken te doen. Als gezant draag ik daar, in nauwe samenwerking met het interdepartementale Rijksregiebureau Maritieme Maakindustrie, graag aan bij!

Come check us out at SMM in Hamburg (booth B6.110) if you are interested in the Captain AI lookout!

We’ll be at SMM next week ⚓️ See you there!

Meet us next week at the SMM trade fair and get a live demo of Captain AI Lookout, the AI powered collision warning system! ⚓️🛥️ You can find us on the VSTEP Simulation booth, hall B6, Stand 110. See you there!

We’re at #eurosatory today. USVs have changed the battlefield forever and autonomy will play a more important role as these vessels start collaborating in swarms in the near future 🚤🚤🚤 Incredible effective marketing by STE (SpetsTechnoExport) ⚓️

Today our colleague Tim Resink presented the future of Autonomy & AI in the maritime industry at the 25th anniversary of IN - innovative navigation GmbH symposium. ⚓️ Congratulations Reinhard Zimmermann and Dr. Thomas Gern with the achievement of this milestone 🥳

Newsflash from our system integrator Periskal serving the inland shipping market: Periskal, Europe's largest player in the field of River Information Services and navigation software, and Captain AI, a pioneer in autonomous shipping technology, present the first experiences with collision warning based on radar and AI in inland shipping. By using the river radar on board – the installation of expensive exotic sensors is avoided.  Captain AI's AI-controlled radar tracker is used to convert the radar image into a synthetic variant in which artificial intelligence ensures the translation into recognizable objects such as ships with course and ahead. Go visit them today at the Maritime Industry Exhibition the Netherlands – Periskal booth B112 Image: radar image with detection of moving vessels, moored vessel and bridges.

It was a pleasure to demonstrate our collision warning system to the Defence Science and Technology Agency DSTA from Singapore 🇸🇬 today! We are looking forward to working with them on improving their autonomy stack for their USVs ⚓️

🚤 Safety First at Watertaxi Rotterdam with Captain AI's Collision Warning System 🎯 Watertaxi Rotterdam, in partnership with Captain AI, has taken another step towards enhancing the safety of their water taxis. The focus here is on preventing collisions and ensuring a safe journey for everyone on board. With the help of Captain AI's advanced AI-based radar tracker combined with AIS data, other ships are automatically detected, tracked, and their behavior predicted. This innovation provides timely warnings for potential collisions, enabling watertaxi captains to respond more quickly and efficiently. Real-Time Insights via Captain AI Cloud: Fleet managers now have access to real-time data from sensors installed on board. This means they can not only monitor their fleet better, but also offer targeted training to their captains in the future. The project is currently in a test phase and is expected to be completed by the end of March. In the video several test runs can be seen, including the detection of a vessel that is sailing without AIS signal, but is detected with our AI-based Radar Tracker. The radar used is a Simard Halo 20.

Captain AI and VSTEP Simulation are revolutionizing Maritime Machine Vision by leveraging the Nautis simulator alongside Generative AI to generate infinite datasets for Machine Vision AI models! This collaboration combines VSTEP's state-of-the-art simulation capabilities with Captain AI's expertise in autonomous navigation and situational awareness, overcoming the traditional data collection methods' limitations such as stereo cameras and LiDAR. While these methods are effective, they often incur high costs, complex setups, and fail to fully capture critical edge cases. This breakthrough is a significantly more cost-effective and scalable alternative to real world data collection. “We're pioneering a method for generating accurate 3D spatial data for single-view cameras” said the CTO Gerard Kruisheer “setting a new benchmark for efficiency and simplicity in data collection”. This advancement will underpin Captain AI’s cutting-edge 3D bounding box detection model which is currently uder development and promises to be future foundation of maritime safety and operational intelligence.