Description
This line of research marked the beginning of the Integrated Group’s activity in the field of naval engineering. The first projects were only concerned with vessel stability. However, this topic has now been extended to other, related ship safety issues. For instance, evacuation processes have been analysed and there have been studies on measures to ensure the safe return to port of passenger ships.
To provide an idea of the scope of vessel stability, the work done by the GII has been focused on analysing, predicting and preventing dynamic instabilities such as, for example, parametric resonance. They have carried out ship behaviour simulations, developed intact and damage stability evaluation systems and also onboard stability guidance systems. Other projects involve optimising ship design from the point of view of stability. Group synergies have been maximised and this line has crossed over to those of naval design and computational intelligence.
Maritime safety means so much more. The GII’s activity has concentrated on developing support systems for evacuation. In addition to its work in stability, the group has expertise in areas such as artificial intelligence, distributed systems and sensing. These technologies can provide the captain with information about the condition of the ship in real time as well as an evacuation process in an emergency. This line also works with simulating human behaviour, necessary to analyse evacuation.
In order to develop work on this topic, the GII boasts a totally sensorised and radio-controlled scale model for towing tank testing and the knowhow on to develop it. Moreover, it has numerical models for evaluating ship dynamics and specialised software for naval architecture and human behaviour, developed and used in numerous projects over the years.
Related Projects
- EMERBUQUE: System to aid ship evacuation in real time
- A-TEMPO: Advances in marine technology - naval and offshore production
- Watchman: Seaport surveillance with the help of sensors and intelligent systems
- Intelligent detection and prevention of parametric resonance in ships
- Small craft warning and tracking system for vessels and crew members
- SIMFAIL: Simulating complex fault models for onboard systems
- Onboard system for ship maintenance management
- System for preventing parametric resonance in container and Ro-Ro ships
Collaborating entities
- Centro Tecnolóxico do Naval Galego
- Electrorayma S.L.
- Ghenova Ingenieria SLU
- Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad
- SCIO SOFT .S.L.
- Sistemas Audiovisuales Itelsis SL
- Universidade da Coruña
Related publications
- M. Míguez González, L. Santiago Caamaño, S. Allegue García, V. Díaz Casás, S. Ferreño González, A. Munín Doce, Incremento de la seguridad de los buques de pesca a través del análisis de estabilidad en tiempo real, Actas del 60 Congreso de Ingeniería Naval e Industria Marítima, pp 1 - 16, 2021
- V. Shigunov, N. Themelis, I. Bačkalov, E. Begovic, E. Eliopoulou, H. Hashimoto, T. Hinz, L. McCue, M. Míguez González, C. A. Rodríguez, Operational measures for intact ship stability, Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on the Stability and Safety of Ships and Ocean Vehicles, pp 1 - 11, 2021
- L. Santiago Caamaño, M. Míguez González, R. Galeazzi, U.D. Nielsen, V. Díaz Casás, On the application of change detection techniques for the stability monitoring of fishing vessels, Proceedings of the 17th International Ship Stability Workshop (ISSW 2019), pp 159 - 167, 2019
- Lucía Santiago Caamaño, Marcos Míguez González, Vicente Díaz Casás, On the feasibility of a real time stability assessment for fishing vessels, Ocean Engineering, pp 76 - 87, 2018
- Marcos Míguez González, Gabriele Bulian, Influence of ship dynamics modelling on the prediction of fishing vessels roll response in beam and longitudinal waves, Ocean Engineering, pp 312 - 330, 2018
- Marcos Míguez González, Gabriele Bulian, Lucía Santiago Caamaño, Vicente Díaz Casás, Towards real-time identification of initial stability from ship roll motion analysis, Proceedings of the 16th International Ship Stability Workshop, pp 221 - 229, 2017
- Marcos Míguez González, Vicente Díaz Casás, Lucía Santiago Caamaño, Real-Time Stability Assessment in Mid-Sized Fishing Vessels, Proceedings of the 15th International Ship Stability Workshop, pp 201 - 208, 2016
- Marcos Míguez González, Vicente Díaz Casás, Luis Pérez Rojas, Daniel Pena Agras, Fernando Junco Ocampo, Investigation of the Applicability of the IMO Second Generation Intact Stability Criteria to Fishing Vessels, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on the Stability of Ships and Ocean Vehicles (STAB 2015), pp 349 - 359, 2015
- Fernando Lopez Peña, Alvaro Deibe, Marcos Miguez Gonzalez, Felix Orjales, Daniel Pena, Using an Autonomous Scale Ship Model for Resistance and Parametric Roll Tests, Sensors & Transducers, pp 68 - 74, 2015
- Marcos Míguez González, Alvaro Deibe, Felix Orjales, Blanca Priego, Fernando López Peña, An Autonomous Scale Ship Model for Parametric Rolling Towing Tank Testing, Advances in Intelligent Robotics and Collaborative Automation, pp 49 - 71, 2015
- Carlos Guedes Soares And Fernando López Peña, Developments in Maritime Transportation and Exploitation of Sea Resources, Developments in Maritime Transportation and Exploitation of Sea Resources, 2014
- Marcos Míguez González, Vicente Díaz Casás, Luis Pérez Rojas, Fernando Junco Ocampo and Daniel Pena Agras, Application of Second Generation IMO Intact Stability Criteria to Medium – Sized Fishing Vessels, Proceedings of the 14th International Ship Stability Workshop, pp 269 - 277, 2014
- Gervasio Varela, Pilar Caamaño, Felix Orjales, Álvaro Deibe, Fernando López-Peña, Richard J. Duro, Autonomous UAV Based Search Operations Using Constrained Sampling Evolutionary Algorithms, Neurocomputing, pp 54 - 67, 2014
- M. Míguez González, V.Díaz Casás, F. López Peña, L. Pérez Rojas, Experimental Analysis of Roll Damping in Small Fishing Vessels for Large Amplitude Roll Forecasting, Proceedings of the 2013 International Ship Stability Workshop, pp 95 - 103, 2013
- F. López Peña, M. Míguez González, V. Díaz Casás, R. J. Duro, D. Pena Agras, An ANN Based System for Forecasting Ship Roll Motion, Proceedings of 2013 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Virtual Environments for Measurement Systems and Applications (CIVEMSA 2013), pp 168 - 173, 2013
- Marcos Míguez González, Vicente Díaz Casás, Fernando López Peña, Luis Pérez Rojas, Análisis numérico y experimental de la resonancia paramétrica en buques de pesca, Revista de Ingeniería Naval (RIN), pp 76 - 81, 2013
- Fernando Junco Ocampo, Vicente Díaz Casás, Marcos Miguez González, Julián Fontela Vivanco, Retorno Seguro a Puerto para Buques de Pasaje, Actas XIV Congreso de Confiabilidad, 2012
- Míguez González, Marcos, Díaz Casás, Vicente, López Peña, fernando, Pérez Rojas, Luis, Análisis numerico y experimental de la resonancia parametrica en buques de pesca, Actas del 51 Congreso de Ingeniería Naval e Industria Marítima, pp 1 - 11, 2012
- Míguez González, Marcos, Díaz Casás, Vicente, López Peña, fernando, Pérez Rojas, Luis, Experimental Parametric Roll Resonance Characterization of a Stern Trawler in Head Seas, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on the Stability of Ships and Ocean Vehicles, pp 625 - 634, 2012
- Junco Ocampo, Fernando, Marcote, Juan Marcos, Díaz Casás, Vicente, Míguez González, Marcos, Influence of Lower Cargo Deck Longitudinal Subdivision of Solas 90/2004 on Ro-Pax Vessels over Attained Damage Stability Indices as 2006 Amendments Solas per MSC 216(82), Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on the Stability of Ships and Ocean Vehicles, pp 767 - 773, 2012
- José Ángel Fraguela Formoso, Luis Carral Couce, Gregorio Iglesias Rodríguez, María Jesús Rodríguez Guerreiro, Functions Responsability and Authority of Human Resources in the Implementation of a Security and Safety Management System at Work, DYNA, pp 180 - 186, 2012
- Marcos Míguez González, Pilar Caamaño Sobrino, Rafael Tedín Álvarez, Vicente Díaz Casás, Alba Martínez López, Fernando López Peña, Fishing vessel stability assessment system, Ocean Engineering, pp 67 - 78, 2012
- Gervasio Varela, Pilar Caamaño, Felix Orjales, Álvaro Deibe, Fernando López-Peña and Richard J. Duro, Swarm Intelligence based Approach for Real Time UAV Team Coordination in Search Operations, Third World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing, pp 372 - 377, 2011
- Carlos Álvarez; José Angel Fraguela Formoso, Luis Carral Couce, Dificultades para la navegabilidad de gaseros cargados con GNL con destino a regasificadoras situadas en el interior de bahías o ríos con entradas limitadas por calado, corrientes, viento y canales estrechos y sinuosos, XXII COPINAVAL, 2011
- José Ángel Fraguela Formoso; Salvador Naya Fernández; Gregorio Iglesias Rodríguez; José Troya Calatayud, Prevención de riesgos de incendio, en trabajos de reparación en cámaras de máquinas de buques, Libro de Ponencias y Conferencias del XXII Congreso Panamericano de Ingeniería Naval, Ingeniería Portuaria COPINAVAL 2011, 2011
- M. Míguez González, F. López Peña, V Díaz Casás, M. Neves, Large Amplitude Roll Motion Forecasting through an Artificial Neural Network System, Proceedings ISSW 2011, pp 1 - 8, 2011
- Fraguela Formoso, J.A.; Carral Couce, L.; Iglesias Rodríguez Gregorio; Castro Ponte, Alberte; Rodríguez Guerreiro, María Jesús, La integración de los sistemas de gestión: necesidad de una nueva cultura empresarial, DYNA, pp 44 - 49, 2011
- Marcos Míguez, Fernando López, Vicente Díaz, Roberto Galleazzi, Mogens Blanke, Prediction of Parametric Roll Resonance by Multilayer Perceptron Neural Network, Proceedings of the Twenty-first (2011) International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference, pp 522 - 529, 2011
- Marcos Míguez González, Vicente Díaz Casas, Alba Martínez López y Fernando López Peña, Inteligencia artificial aplicada a la predicción del balance paramétrico autoexcitado, Actas del 49 CIN, pp 1 - 18, 2010
- Marcos Miguez Gonzalez, Fernando Lopez Peña, Vicente Diaz Casas, Marcelo de Almeida Santos Neves, An Artificial Neural Network Approach for Parametric Rolling Prediction, Proceedings of the 11th international symposium on practical design of ships and other floating structures, pp 426 - 435, 2010
- Marcos Míguez González, Pilar Caamaño Sobrino, Rafael Tedín Álvarez, Vicente Díaz Casás. Alba Martínez López, Un sistema embarcado de evaluación de la estabilidad y ayuda al patrón de buques de pesca, Revista de Ingeniería Naval (RIN), pp 92 - 98, 2009
- Marcos Míguez, Pilar Caamaño, Rafael Tedín, Vicente Díaz, Alba Martínez, Un sistema embarcado de evaluación de la estabilidad y ayuda al patrón de buques de pesca, Actas del 48º Congreso de INgeniería marítima, pp 1 - 1, 2009
- Marcos Míguez González, Pilar Caamaño Sobrino, Vicente Díaz Casás, Alba Martínez López, Implicaciones de la Resolución IMO MSC.194 (80) en el Diseño de Buques Ro-Pax, Actas del 47 Congreso de Ingeniería Naval00, 2008