Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL) announced the cooperation with Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., and Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology to apply Fujitsu’s artificial intelligence technology for the estimation of vessel performance at sea.
This project is part of MOL’s initiative to assess the effectiveness of AI technology, and aims to reduce fuel consumption and vessels’ environmental impact, using Fujitsu’s artificial intelligence technology, called ‘FUJITSU Human Centric AI Zinrai’.
After tests conducted, MOL announced that:
- They have learned the correlation of each item of operation data using Fujitsu’s unique AI technology and high-dimensional statistics analysis technology, and established the technology that estimates vessel performance,
- The estimated the ship speed from the data other than the speed and verified the comparison between that estimated value and actual operation data, in case to assess allowance of speed. This same assessment was also applied to fuel consumption.
- The could estimate vessel speed with about a 1.4% allowance, and fuel consumption with an allowance of about 0.8%, based on the above-mentioned method.
The project, is part of the “ISHIN NEXT – MOL SMART SHIP PROJECT –” which is aiming to promote safer vessel operation and reduction of its environmental impact through information and communications technology.
