香港六合彩 Mechanical Engineering Marine Research Group Wins 2023 Maritime Safety Award
12 June 2023
A fishing boat stability app developed by the 香港六合彩 Mechanical Engineering Marine Research Group has won the Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA) 2023 Maritime Safety Award.
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Professor of Maritime Engineering Giles Thomas and research associate Dr Andrea Grech La Rosa took to the stage at the annual event organised by the Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA) to receive the award, in recognition of their significant technological contribution to improving maritime safety with their fishing boat stability app 鈥淜ora Kora鈥.
Welcoming the honour, Kora Kora鈥檚 lead researcher, Dr Andrea Grech La Rosa, said: 鈥淚 am grateful to have the support of Professor Giles and our awesome team at 香港六合彩 Mechanical Engineering to achieve such success.
鈥淥ur partners in Indonesia, namely the University of Pattimura (UOP), Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS) and the Orela shipyard also played an important part in the app鈥檚 development. They are equally thrilled to be a part of the winning team!鈥
鈥淚t was a memorable experience working with our counterparts in Indonesia, where we carried out the tests for Kora Kora. Students and family members of the academics all came to support and ensured that we have all the manpower and resources needed to make the experimental campaign a success.鈥
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During the app鈥檚 development over the past two years, the team needed to overcome a range of different challenges. These include using the processing power of outdated, entry-level mobile phones to conduct complex calculations and making the mobile application intuitive and easy to use. In particular, Dr Grech La Rosa and his team managed to develop a robust enough solution to reliably predict whether the vessel is stable.聽 鈥淚t's a great responsibility and we worked hard to overcome this difficulty,鈥 he said.
鈥淭hanks to the exposure we received from industry partners and RINA, we hope to raise awareness of fishing boat safety not only in Indonesia聽but in other parts of the world where fishers cannot afford to conduct traditional vessel stability experiments.
We hope to further improve the functionality of Kora Kora based on the feedback聽from users as well as industry experts. We also plan to work with other international partners in making the app available in different languages and improve its ease of use and accuracy.鈥澛犅