Mikael Laurin, ceo of Lean Marine Swedish technology entrepreneurs and academia have formed a consortium to research on an artificial intelligence (AI), semi-autonomous ship operation support system for a more energy efficient sea voyage.
Ship propulsion optimisation specialist Lean Marine is leading the R&D project named Via Kaizen, funded by the Swedish Transport Administration and coordinated by consultancy CIT Industriell Energi AB.
Lean Marine and AI-application developers Molflow are collaborating with academia from the Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg to develop the new AI-powered, semi-autonomous system for planning and executing more energy efficient sea voyages since the project commenced in August 2020.