The first digital intelligent research ship in China equipped with digital twin technology, departed for its first voyage from Penglai in the Shandong Province of eastern China..
The first digital intelligent research ship in China equipped with digital twin technology, departed for its first voyage on Friday from Penglai in the Shandong Province of eastern China.
The ship, which is headed for Qingdao, the capital of Shandong, will conduct a number of experiments using its intelligent capabilities along the way, including equipment performance indicator verification, autonomous navigation and operation, and virtual and physical digital twin system interaction.
The Haitun 1 (Dolphin) vessel, designed by Harbin Engineering University, is 25 metres long and has a 1,000-ton displacement.
It boasts numerous advancements in important technologies and is powered by the nation’s first shipborne digital twin system.
The ship is equipped with multi-source information fusion and cooperative detection technologies that combine solid-state radar, video, sound, lidar, and other signals to enable intelligent perception of the marine environment and small targets.
The ship-shore mirroring and real-time virtual reality interaction technologies included in the digital twin technology system secure the intelligent features like autonomous navigation and remote control.
The delivery of Haitun 1 will significantly advance the practical use of digital twin technology in China’s marine industry and its frontier exploration.
Harbin Engineering University was founded in 1953 in Harbin, China. HEU is aiming to become the top institution for engineering and marine fields despite being designated as a Double First Class University and a former Project 211 university. It is also a part of the central government of China’s Double First-Class University Plan.
More than 150 degree programmes are available through HEU, 48 of which are taught in English. The PLA Military Engineering Institute, which was founded in Harbin on September 1, 1953 with technical assistance from the Soviet Union following the Korean War, is where HEU’s roots can be traced.
The university changed its name to Harbin Engineering College in 1966 and became a regional, non-military institution of higher learning. However, because of the unrest at the border with the then-Soviet Union in 1970, the old university was shut down.
In Changsha, Hunan Province, the main portion of the old university, including university-level administration, was relocated. A few other departments were relocated inland as well, but to different locations. Harbin Shipbuilding Engineering Institute was given to the portion that remained in Harbin, which formed a new university.