The offshore wind energy sector continues to grow around the world. Wind farms are supporting a move to greener renewable energy suppliers. The sector needs to deal with significant hazards and environmental challenges. These include the unpredictability of the weather. There is a growing push to test and deploy more automation. This reduces the number of crew that needs to be transported offshore, making it more cost effective and safer.

This post goes through some of the recent developments.

Ocean Infinity Remote Controlled Vessels

Ocean Infinity is a technology company leading innovations in robotics and autonomous vessels within the offshore sector. They are developing remote control vessels with advancements in robotics. These enhancements help deploy uncrewed surface vessels (USVs) and autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). Their purpose is for subsea data collection, maintenance, and inspections. Their goal is to make offshore operations safer, more efficient, and less reliant on human presence in hazardous environments. Because these vessels (by Ocean Infinity) are controlled remotely, they have much smaller crew on board, reducing their carbon footprint​.

[Source: Ocean Infinity]

Their Armada vessels range from 21 to 37 meters in length. They are designed to operate without onboard crew. The vessels can be remotely controlled from onshore mission control centers. They can also operate fully autonomously. They have very cool remote control centers with immersive bridge stations.

[Source: Ocean Infinity]