The Dutch company Amarcon B.V., a leading supplier of information and decision support systems for ships, has signed a licensing contract with DTU on the PAROLL technology.
The PAROLL system will be integrated with the OCTOPUS on-board system from Amarcon BV and will find its way to ocean going ships towards the end of 2011. Having been at sea for close to a decade, OCTOPUS on-board is well established in the marine market. It offers decision support related to route planning in waves. OCTOPUS on-board receives weather information and forecasts and it predict ship’s responses and amplitudes in roll motion as forced by waves.
PAROLL is a novel information-based technology that detects an actual onset of parametric resonance and does so based on signals from common and cheaply available sensors. DTU Elektroresearchers Roberto Galeazzi and Mogens Blanke as well as N. K. Poulsen from DTU Informatics will work on integrating the PAROLL technology during the coming months.
The PAROLL technology was refined in a Proof of Concept project. This funding and a collaboration between DTU, Det Norske Veritas and NTNU in Trondheim paved the way towards commercialisation.