Virtual Sea Trial

Virtual Sea Trial Project
1 January 2024 – 31 December 2026
Business Finland
Budget UTU: 1 846 325 €

The Virtual Sea Trial project will develop a unified and distributed virtual testing environment for ship systems. In the test environment, the shipbuilding ecosystem can test, validate, design, develop, and monitor things related to sea trials in cooperation and transparently. The virtual testing environment significantly reduces the cost risks associated with sea trials and the time needed to test ships at sea, which leads to direct emission reductions, enables the co-creation of innovations, and saves costs for the entire shipbuilding ecosystem.

The project utilizes and adapts co-simulation methods and processes into shipbuilding. With co-simulation, organizations in the shipbuilding ecosystem can test their products together already during the development phase. The project will also conceptualize a maritime digital asset management system and AI-supported information-retrieval system together with new usability and UI/UX solutions to manage and monitor tacit and documented data related to the testing of ship systems more openly across organizational boundaries.

Virtual testing and commissioning solutions will improve the competitiveness of the Finnish shipbuilding ecosystem in the increasingly digitalized marine industry. The business feasibility of the concepts developed in the project will be assessed throughout the project. During the project, a roadmap is made, which includes an implementation plan for the developed concepts and a plan for the virtualization of sea trials.

VST is a Business Finland co-innovation Meyer Necoleap Veturi project.

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Teijo Lehtonen
Senior Research Fellow
teijo.lehtonen@utu.fi
Phone +358 (0)44 440 0005

Selected publications

The publications from our previous projects of the same research area can be found from the following links: SUSTIS and SusCon.