Scope:
D-NAVIO - Digital Ship: Mastering Complexity of the Waterborne Digital Transport through “Cloning of the Ship"
D-NAVIO develops a novel Digital Twin (DT) platform based on trustworthy and generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) featuring explainability and self-healing; thus, providing a user-centric approach to gain users’ trust, while offering the robustness required for long-haul operations.
D-NAVIO (meaning Digital-Ship) is an advanced digital twin project that aims to develop a next-generation digital “clone of ships” through an Intelligent Digital Twin (IDT) system. Integrating explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) and self-healing technologies, D-NAVIO focuses on large, complex vessels. The project aligns with the global mission to enhance maritime safety, protect property, improve environmental efficiency, and facilitate the transition to autonomous ships by incorporating interdisciplinary knowledge from automation, aviation, and the space industry.
D-NAVIO’s “System-of-Systems” approach enables real-time monitoring and analytics through two pilot use cases:
- COLUMBIA’s large passenger/cruise ship, and
- DANAOS Shipping’s large cargo/container ship.
These pilots will identify missing requirements and propose advanced methods for forecasting, preventing, and managing faults, failures, and hazards throughout a ship’s operational phase.
Through its multi-pillar approach, D-NAVIO goes beyond the state-of-the-art to offer specific and tangible, cuttingedge
innovations:
- D-NAVIO XDTLib: An Extensible Digital Twins Library for Waterborne Systems,
- D-NAVIO HYDRA: A Hybrid and Adaptive Risk Assessment Framework,
- D-NAVIO Failures Reporting System: A “memory of failures” system,
- D-NAVIO Cybersecurity Assessment Toolkit,
- DYNAMO: Dynamic Cloning for Maritime Applications, and
- Analysis of Reliability Regimes for critical systems.
D-NAVIO’s innovative solutions, grounded in interdisciplinary collaboration and input from shipyards, shipbuilders, system designers, maritime engineers, equipment manufacturers, IT experts, operators, class societies, and regulators, will establish a smart platform that revolutionizes risk assessment and hazard management. This will not only enhance safety during design, construction, and sea trials but will also ensure operational resilience and cost-effectiveness throughout the life cycle of large ships.
The D-NAVIO consortium consists of 16 partners with an overall budget of €3.99M over 3 years with 100% grant from EU.
Work packages
WP1: Project Management and Coordination (NTUA)
WP2: Development of HYDRA Methodological Framework (DMC)
WP3: Intelligent Digital Technologies for Risk Analysis in Large Complex Vessels (UTH)
WP4: D-NAVIO Platform Co-design and Integration (NTUA)
WP5: Analysis and Assessment of Reliability Regimes (LR EMEA)
WP6: Pilot Use Cases Implementation, Validation, and Evaluation (NAP)
WP7: Dissemination, Exploitation and Impact Assurance (WR)
Duration
2025 -2028
Partners
- Ethnicon Metsovion Polytechnion El Coordinator (NTUA)
- Lloyd's Register Emea Ips Uk Partner (LR EMEA)
- Shipyards And Maritime Equipment Association Ofbe Partner (Sea Europe)
- Columbia Blue Gmbh & Co. Kg De Partner (CB)
- Danaos Shipping Company Limited Cy Partner (DANAOS)
- Danaos Management Consultants S.A El Partner (DMC)
- Technische Universitaet Braunschweig De Partner (TUBS)
- Mitis Kyvernochoros Anonymi Etaireia Technologel Partner (METIS)
- Panepistimio Thessalias El Partner (UTH)
- Diamatix Ltd. Bg Partner (DIAMATIX)
- Nap Engineering Pc El Partner (NAP)
- Maggioli Spa It Partner (MAG)
- White Research Srl Be Partner (WR)
- Politistiki Klironomia Erevna Kainotomia Kai Viosimel Partner (LEDRA)
- Catalink Limited Cy Partner (CAT)
- R&Do Limited Cy Partner (R&DO)
