A new partnership led by Grimaldi – a major international maritime service operator groups based in Naples with a fleet of 130 ships owned, 10 under construction and 10 in the design phase will foster the adoption of GNSS technologies for the automation of vessels. GSAB – Grimaldi Satellite Assisted Berthing is a premiere and flagship project, awarded by ESA \u2013 NAVISP 2 program to an international consortium led by Grimaldi in partnership with Kongsberg (Norway) and Radiolabs \u00a0targeting the assisted berthing operations with big vessels as the PCTC \u2013 Pure Car & Truck Carriers.<\/p>\n
Radiolabs, co-prime contractor of GSAB, will be responsible of the design, execution and validation of the whole system in operating conditions leveraging on a multi-year know how for high integrity high accuracy positioning with GNSS for trains and car applications. \u00a0Test campaign will be carried out for the first time with a large and modern ro-ro ship made available by Grimaldi as a step-forward respect to the small-size vessels already used. An accurate and reliable test bed with a reference ground truth will be implemented by Radiolabs to evaluate the performance of the technologies on board the ship.<\/p>\n
GSAB \u2013 a premiere project for introducing latest innovations on satellite-based multi-sensor technologies will contribute to improve the efficiency of manoeuvres in the port \u00a0and to increase the safety while reducing CO2 emissions in line with the strategy of a greener and safer maritime transport. The first phase is dedicated to the design of the equipments and related laboratory tests and pre-installation of the system on board the ship. The second phase will take place in the port of Antwerp at the Grimaldi AET terminal in real operational conditions.<\/p>\n
GSAB will also contribute to the development of standardised multi-modal GNSS platforms for rail, car and ship berthing autonomous operations.<\/p>\n