IIT Madras Builds SEANAV Digital Twin To Train Autonomous Ships

Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) researchers have developed ‘SEANAV’ (Sea Navigation), a real-time digital twin platform that enables testing, validation, and training of autonomous maritime navigation systems in realistic virtual environments.

The research team has already demonstrated autonomous path-following and AI-driven collision avoidance under realistic sensing and wave conditions.

A Demo Video and a Byte of Prof. Suresh Rajendran explaining this system can be viewed and downloaded from – Here

Developed by the Department of Ocean Engineering at IIT Madras, SEANAV addresses a major challenge facing the global shipping industry, which carries more than 80 percent of world trade.

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