SEASHORE: - Shore to Sea Drone Delivery Services meeting strict Maritime Vessel and Stakeholder Requirements

目前，发射船用于向不打算进港的远洋船舶运送货物和零件。然而，发射船维护成本高昂，通常使用化石燃料运行，并且在应对困难的海况时不仅会对货物造成风险，还会对人的生命造成风险。COVID-19的限制使这种运送形式进一步复杂化。除了远洋船舶，索伦特海峡是数百艘大型休闲船的家园，在航行期间经常需要补给。南安普顿也是几艘游轮的所在地，这些游轮在海上时可能会受益于再补给。SEASHORE项目是一项可行性研究，将演示和评估海岸到船舶的无人机交付系统。该系统将通过调整Motion Robotics设计和制造的现有组件来高速开发，并针对海上交付用例进行优化，可行性成功标准基于美国，新加坡和荷兰的一些海岸无人机交付项目已经明确的观察和声明目标，以及美国和英国海军的要求。实际上，满足这些标准意味着您已经解决了完全商业化系统的所有底层技术和需求。我们需要使交付更快，我们需要增加（两倍）我们的无人机有效载荷，无人机需要防火，满足新的无化石天然气驱动的航运需求，无人机飞行控制和包裹递送需要考虑船舶运动，特别是起伏。为了竞争，它必须以较低的成本实现，减少环境影响并消除船员受伤的风险。该项目包括对海洋世界有深入了解的非资助合作伙伴，商船，该项目的主要成果将是对索伦特沃茨上的海岸到海洋交付进行示范和评估。这将在靠近海岸的Fawley沃茨进行，无需获得CAA飞行批准，目的是证明它可以在获得CAA完全批准的情况下进行扩展并完全商业化。从长远来看，SEASHORE将利用索伦特海峡内的关键战略位置，为我们的无人机建立一个发射地点网络，以访问怀特岛和南海岸周围的锚地。

Currently launch craft are used to deliver goods and parts to ocean going vessels that do not plan to come into port.However, launch craft are expensive to maintain, typically run using fossil fuels and can present risk not only to cargo but also to human life when fighting difficult sea conditions.COVID-19 restrictions have further complicated this form of delivery.In addition to ocean going vessels, the Solent is home to many hundreds of large leisure craft, that often require resupply during cruises. Southampton is also home to several cruise liners which may benefit from resupply when at sea.Project SEASHORE is a feasibility study that will demonstrate and evaluate a shore to ship drone based delivery system. The system will be developed at high speed by adapting already available components designed and fabricated by Motion Robotics, optimising them for the sea delivery use case,The feasibility success criteria are based on observations and stated aims already well identified by a number of shore to ship drone delivery projects in the USA, Singapore and the Netherlands, as well as requirements of the USA and UK navies. In effect meeting these criteria mean that you have solved all the underlying technologies and needs for a fully commercial system.SEASHORE's technical challenges cover a range of topics; we need to make deliveries more rapid, we need to increase (double) our drone payloads, the drones need to be fire safe meeting the needs of new fossil free gas driven shipping, drone flight control and parcel delivery needs to account for vessel motion particularly heaving.To compete it must be achieved at lower cost, reduce environmental impact and remove the risk of injury to crew.The project includes non-funded partners with deep knowledge of the maritime world, merchant navy, best practice procedures, needs of the shipping industry and their commercial requirements.The key outcome of the project will be a demonstration and evaluation of shore to sea deliveries on the Solent waters. This will be done on Fawley waters, close to shore and without the need for CAA flight approval, with the aim being to prove it can be extended with full CAA approvals and fully commercialised.In the longer term, SEASHORE will use key strategic positions within the Solent, to establish a network of launch locations for our drones to access anchorages around the Isle of Wight and the south coast.