Design and Construction of a Maritime Teledrive Station, Undertittel: Considering Situational Awareness, Ergonomics, and Production
Students
Andreas Ødegård
Tomas Bønes Wedege
Supervisors
Ole Andreas Alsos
Alexey Gusev
The maritime industry is currently facing a crew shortage, and researchers and companies are turning to autonomous ships and uncrewed surface vessels as a solution. However, given the novelty of the technology, human operators must still remain on watch, ready to take control of the vessel when autonomy is insufficient. With uncrewed vessels, this intervention is executed from a land-based operation center. A key capability of such centers is teledriving, the ability for an operator to remotely and directly steer a vessel in real time as a fallback mechanism. This thesis continues the research done by Gusev et al. on designing a workstation for remote steering, tailored to the operator's needs. In the present work, a Research through Design process is employed, supplemented by desk research, site visits, interviews, standardized testing and expert assessment. Together, these methods investigated how to design a teledrive station that accommodates situational awareness and ergonomic comfort and needed considerations for the production of such a teledrive station. The findings suggest that situational awareness, ergonomic comfort, and production are deeply interrelated, and that design decisions in one area often affect the others.



