ABB Ability™ Marine Pilot

Next generation ship operations

ABB Ability™ Marine Pilot product family provides tools and functionalities to improve situational awareness and operational control for the crew - from onboard and onshore.

 

Our offering

ABB Ability™ Marine Pilot Control


Pilot Control is a new way to control your vessel during all operational modes, including maneuvering, transit and position-keeping. Designed for autonomous and remote operations, the system enables optimal and complete all-speed vessel control from one operator position.

ABB Ability™ Marine Pilot Vision


ABB Ability™ Marine Pilot Vision provides an augmented view of your vessel’s surroundings by combining information from a range of sensors, resulting in enhanced situational awareness for the operator.

Highlights

Generations: Technical insight

Cooperative Vessel Operations enabled through autonomous systems

Previous discussions related to autonomous shipping operations have often focused on technological challenges. With the roll-out of pilot projects, the focus needs to shift towards identifying commercially viable and scalable applications for autonomous technologies.

Did you know

ABB Ability™ Marine Pilot Vision

Did you know advanced digital features similar to those found in cars are being used to enhance ship navigation? Find out more.

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Pulling ahead

In a collaboration with the Crowley Maritime Corporation, ABB is supplying the electrification technology to power the first all-electric tugboat in the United States. Crowley’s eWolf tug for the Port of San Diego is a zero-emission workboat that takes an important step toward a sustainable future.

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Navigating the future

By complementing human strengths, ABB’s Marine Pilot solutions offer seafarers better situational awareness, easier, safer and more efficient operations and predictable, consistent control.

Press release

ABB to power first fully electric U.S. tugboat for maximum efficiency and zero-emission operations

ABB will deliver an integrated electric propulsion system and advanced vessel control technology for Crowley’s pioneering eWolf tug, built for sustainable and safe operations at the Port of San Diego.

Press release

ABB and Keppel O&M reach key autonomy milestone with remote vessel operation trial in Port of Singapore

ABB, together with Singaporean shipyard Keppel Offshore & Marine (Keppel O&M), has successfully carried out South Asia’s first remote joystick control of a tugboat in the busy Port of Singapore.

Web story and whitepaper

Electronic lookout for increased ship safety

Evidence is emerging that vessel safety will benefit with technology enhancing the bridge lookout.

Web story

A guiding hand for the autonomous ship: we have the technologies, now we need regulations

Eero Lehtovaara talks about ABB’s digital initiatives in shipping and his priorities as the new Chairman of One Sea, a 12-member alliance of ship automation technology companies

Press release

ABB and Raytheon Anschütz bring the benefits of electric, digital and connected bridge to Ritz-Carlton

Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection’s first “anti-cruise” luxury vessel will benefit from a full integration of ABB’s propulsion, automation and dynamic positioning package with Raytheon Anschütz’s navigation system.

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Remotely operated passenger ferry
Generations: Business insight

Making history in Helsinki

ABB has enabled a groundbreaking remote control trial of a passenger ferry using off-the-shelf technology that can be fitted to virtually any sailing vessel.

Generations: Technical insight

B0 – a conditionally and periodically unmanned bridge

The recent development in sensor technology, data analytics and computing power enables to increase the level of automation in ship navigation, steering and control. As a basic definition an autonomous vessel is not necessarily unmanned but an unmanned vessel is, by default, autonomous to a high degree.

 

The ABB AbilityTM Marine Pilot product family rethinks what could be done in the marine industry given the rapid development in computing technology. 

While the modules can be used for autonomous operations, the forefront of our design is to support qualified crew in operating efficient ships into the future.

 

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