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Mobile WebSiteWith the rapid development of technologies such as automatic control, Internet of Things, and big data, the trend of automation and intelligence in the transportation field has become more and more active. After drones and driverless cars, unmanned ships have also become the focus of attention in the industry. The environment-aware technology and communication and navigation technology related to ships have been widely used, which provides technical feasibility for the development of intelligent unmanned ships. Unmanned transport vessels have many advantages such as safer, more efficient, more cost-effective, more environmentally friendly, and have broad application requirements and development prospects. The gradual replacement of traditional ships by unmanned ships is a general trend.
Unmanned ship classification and main uses
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As a new branch of the boat industry, unmanned ships have a wide range of uses in military and civilian applications and play a huge role. Unmanned ships have shown great advantages, and with the rapid development of communication technology, sensors and artificial intelligence, China's unmanned ships have entered a stage of rapid development, and a new round of revolution in the shipping industry is likely to be picked up by unmanned ships.
In 2014, the market size of China's unmanned shipbuilding industry was about 11.52 million yuan. In 2018, it has grown to 247.5 million yuan. The market size of the industry has increased by more than 20 times in four years, and the compound annual growth rate has reached 115%. The industry will continue to maintain rapid growth in the future.
China's unmanned ship industry market scale trend in 2014-2018
Source: Zhiyan Consulting
Comparison of production and sales of unmanned ships in China in 2014-2018
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Unmanned ships have been widely used in the military field, and can perform military tasks such as mine clearance, anti-submarine warfare, electronic warfare, and support for special operations. As the technology matures, unmanned ships also have some tentative applications in civil matters, such as the use of unmanned boats for weather monitoring. In the near future, unmanned vessels can be applied to large-scale ocean mapping and water quality monitoring, underwater topographic surveys, large-scale search and rescue, reducing labor intensity and reducing operating time while improving coverage. The phenomenon of “military transfer to the people” in China's unmanned ship market is becoming more and more obvious. The proportion of the market for civilian unmanned ships is constantly increasing, and the proportion of the military consumer market is declining. As of 2018, the civilian unmanned ship market accounted for 52%, surpassing the military field for the first time.
Comparison of consumption structure of China's unmanned ship industry in 2014/2018
Unmanned ships have made great breakthroughs in the field of environmental protection. At present, there are about 250 water environment monitoring centers, 2,600 water quality monitoring stations, 5,000 hydrological stations, 250 provincial environmental testing centers, and more than 2,600 environmental monitoring stations. And the number is gradually increasing. If each one is equipped with an unmanned ship, the market potential cannot be underestimated.
In the field of security, unmanned ships often need to work with other smart devices, such as a combination of drones and unmanned ships. Unmanned ships can carry a wide range of water surfaces by effectively carrying a variety of police equipment and life-saving devices. Monitoring patrols, target search, rescue, auxiliary diving operations, anti-terrorism reconnaissance, and dangerous environment detection, etc., effectively solve the efficiency problem of security implementation tasks, and its market demand is broad.
In the field of surveying and mapping, the unmanned ship survey system has the advantages that traditional manual survey ships cannot match in the waters where reservoirs, fish ponds, lakes, shoals, fishing nets and other obstacles are difficult to measure. The automatic obstacle avoidance radar system that comes with the system, It realized the automatic avoidance of obstacles, ensured the safety of the hull and equipment, greatly liberated and developed the productivity, and improved the efficiency of surveying and mapping. Unmanned ships have become an important development direction of modern water observation technology. However, the unmanned ship measurement system still stays in the manual adjustment stage in terms of the sounder's power and sensitivity adjustment. In order to carry out the surveying work more automatically, it is still necessary to further improve and enhance the sounder system and increase the accuracy of the measurement depth.
