aXat­lantic: Ocean Drone Project

Here is a nice little project of a German engi­neer­ing team where CAESES® has been involved recently, for the purpose of shape opti­miza­tion: aXat­lantic. This project is about building an ocean going drone, even aiming for a world record for the first solar powered and autonomous ocean crossing. Wow!

In this project, the engi­neers used CAESES® for the cal­cu­la­tion and opti­miza­tion of the hull’s sta­bil­ity and its self-righting ability. More detailed, the goal was to improve upright sta­bil­ity and maximum righting arm of the hull, while keeping the self righting ability. More than 2000 dif­fer­ent designs were auto­mat­i­cally gen­er­ated and eval­u­ated in CAESES®, to find the one suiting their needs best. For the sta­bil­ity, the software MAXSURF Sta­bil­ity was coupled to CAESES®.

We hope that these guys bring this project to great success — all the best from the FRIEND­SHIP SYSTEMS team!

Link: aXat­lantic project page