MUNIN in Die Welt

The German newspaper Die Welt featured an article about autonomous ships on  December 28, 2013. Although fully automated ships are not a new idea, only now the technology is developed further to realize them. Rolls Royce strongly believes in their future, and thus, drives the realization. As a research project, co-funded by the European Commission, MUNIN aims to develop and verify a concept for an autonomous ship.

You can read the full article here. (only in German)

MUNIN on E-Navigation Underway 2014 – Conference Proceedings

The e-navigation community met at the e-Navigation underway conference on the ferry M/S Pearl Seaways, Copenhagen – Oslo – Copenhagen, from January 28 to 30, 2014. Relating to the focus Waypoints beyond the Strategy Implementation Plan the MUNIN project itself and opportunities provided by it to promote the implementation of prioritised e-navigation solutions were addressed. Hans-Christoph Burmeister, Fraunhofer CML, and Ørnulf Jan Rødseth, MARINTEK, gave the presentation Beyond the e-Navigation implementation plan: Development towards the unmanned merchant vessel?

The video of the MUNIN presentation as well as the conference proceedings are available online now!