{"id":2593,"date":"2021-01-05T17:43:03","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T16:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tresco.eu\/autonomous-navigation\/"},"modified":"2024-03-21T17:45:24","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T16:45:24","slug":"trackpilot","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.tresco.eu\/en\/trackpilot\/","title":{"rendered":"TrackPilot"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row equal_height=”yes” content_placement=”middle” css=”.vc_custom_1676620158378{padding-top: 50px !important;padding-bottom: 70px !important;}”][vc_column width=”2\/3″][vc_column_text]Autonomous navigation may seem easy if you imagine a ship in the middle of the ocean, where it almost always has hundreds of metres or even many miles of space to turn in any direction. Things aren\u2019t so simple for inland navigation: traffic is relatively heavy, and space is far more limited. A ship 135 metres long that needs to make a manoeuvre has little margin for deviating from the ideal route.<\/p>\n

To automate operations like these, you need highly sophisticated software on the one hand, and a good track available on the other, in order to be able to adjust the steering constantly, as necessary. Tresco TrackPilot offers the best of both worlds.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_raw_html]JTNDYSUyMGhyZWYlM0QlMjIlMkZlbiUyRnRyYWNrcGlsb3QtcmVxdWVzdCUyMiUzRSUwQSUzQ2RpdiUyMGNsYXNzJTNEJTIycGgtdHAtY2FsbG91dCUyMiUzRSUwQSUyMCUyMEFscmVhZHklMEElMjAlMjAlM0NkaXYlMjBjbGFzcyUzRCUyMnBoLWJpZ3RleHQlMjIlM0UlMjAlM0MlMkZkaXYlM0UlMEElMjAlMjBpbnN0YWxsZWQlM0NiciUyRiUzRVRyYWNrUGlsb3RzJTBBJTNDJTJGZGl2JTNFJTBBJTNDJTJGYSUzRQ==[\/vc_raw_html][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row equal_height=”yes” content_placement=”middle” css=”.vc_custom_1585225519165{padding-top: 80px !important;padding-bottom: 70px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”2566″ img_size=”500×500″ alignment=”center”][vc_empty_space height=”10″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”2\/3″]

Tresco TrackPilot: the pilot and the tracks<\/h2><\/div>
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\n\t<\/i>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>[vc_column_text]Tresco TrackPilot consists of two components:<\/p>\n
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  • The steering module or automatic pilot;<\/li>\n
  • The SmartTracks: the beacons that plot the ideal course.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    By allowing the automatic pilot to navigate to these tracks, your ship follows the ideal shipping route of its own accord. This sounds simpler than it is: to achieve it you need both incredibly intelligent steering software and a large number of reference points that have been programmed in, based on Tresco\u2019s many years of experience and knowledge of inland navigation.[\/vc_column_text]