SAR Box: Developing AI to enable unmanned search and rescue

在海上拯救生命是至关重要的，北海平均温度为10.5摄氏度，在那里，没有防护措施的伤亡人员在游泳失败和死亡前只有不到30分钟的时间。由于海上风力(OW)、石油和天然气(O&G)退役和商业航运的持续发展，比以往任何时候都更多的人在海上工作。现在，项目正在远离海岸，那里的风速和海浪高度都在增加。2019年在建农场到岸边的平均距离为59公里，高于2018年的35公里。未来十年，这一数字将会增加，迫使运营商重新考虑现场搜救服务。OSS正在开发世界上第一个远程操作的搜索和救援(SAR)服务，以保护海上工人的安全，使救援人员远离危险，并支持不断增长的蓝色经济。这项服务需要一个半自动的无人救援船(URV)网络，随时准备在紧急情况下快速部署。该系统将使用Sarbox(传感器和机器学习/人工智能)来识别和主动跟踪漂浮在水中的伤亡人员，使URV能够导航到他们并定位以进行救援。从而使搜索从搜救中解脱出来。总体目标是实现无人搜救。这需要开发一个传感器阵列，结合人工智能/机器学习来识别和跟踪水中的伤亡人员，支持URV的导航来执行伤亡恢复。这将形成Sarbox系统，该项目将从TRL2-5中提取Sarbox。

Saving lives at sea is time critical, North Sea temperatures average 10.5°C where unprotected casualties have less than 30 minutes before swim failure and death.More people than ever are working offshore due to the continued development of offshore wind (OW), oil and gas (O&G) decommissioning and commercial shipping. OW projects are moving further from shore where wind speeds and wave heights increase. Average distance to shore of farms under construction in 2019 was 59km, up from 35km in 2018\. This will increase over the next decade, forcing operators to rethink onsite SAR provisionOSS are developing the world's first remotely operated Search and Rescue (SAR) service to keep offshore workers safe, keep rescuers out of harm's way and support the ever-growing blue economy.The service requires a network of semi-autonomous Unmanned Rescue Vessels (URV's), ready to rapidly deploy in case of an emergency. Reducing emergency response times to save lives at sea whilst reducing the requirement put people at unnecessary risk.The system will use SARbox (sensors and machine learning / AI developed in this project) to identify and actively track casualties drifting in the water enabling the URV to navigate to them and position for recovery. Thereby taking the search out of search and rescue.The overall objective is to enable unmanned SAR. This requires the development of a sensor array combined with AI/Machine learning to identify and track casualties in the water, supporting the navigation of the URV to perform casualty recovery. This will form the SARbox system and this project will take SARbox from TRL2-5\.