WEBINAR: Highly Autonomous Warship Technology: Bridging the Gap to Autonomy

IMarEST TV recording from the Naval Engineering Special Interest Group on the 16th June 2022. This webinar was presented by Jake Rigby of BMT.

Embracing the future of maritime autonomy, this webinar explores the core enabling technologies that will facilitate lean crewing in warships. Many ethical and practical constraints currently make a completely unmanned surface combatant unfeasible; therefore the near future solutions may utilise highly autonomous vessels alongside smaller unmanned counterparts to create an optimal force structure. In this thought leadership piece, the challenges of autonomy in warship design are broken down into seven core development areas, and a vision for how a warship in 2040 could operate is created.

About The Speaker

Jake Rigby is the Research and Development Lead, responsible for the portfolio management of internal research projects in defence. He is a chartered engineer and Member of the Royal Institute of Naval Architects, originally training as a Naval Architect specialising in ship signatures before his current role. Jake is also responsible for Academic Engagement at BMT. In recognition of his work to progress Academic Engagement in the maritime sector, he was recently awarded the title of Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Exeter and continues to engage in a range of collaborative research projects. 

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