Pukyong National University

PKNU has won the KABOAT 2021 2 years straight

- Dept. of Naval Architecture and Marine systems Engineering ... received Minister prize from the Ministry of Trade, Infrastructure and Energy

△ The team PASS and the team BASS from the Department of Naval Architecture and Marine systems Engineering at Pukyong National University, which won the autonomous boat contest, are taking a commemorative photo with President Jang Young-Soo and Professor Park Jong-Yong. ⓒPhoto Lee Sung-Jae (PR Team)

The team PASS (Leader Kim Soo-Rim, 2 years in master's) of the Naval Architecture and Marine systems Engineering at Pukyong National University (President Jang Young-Soo) has won the all-around victory in the 2021 Korean autonomous boat competition (KABOAT 2021) since last year.

Sponsored by Gyeongsangnam-do and Changwon-si and hosted by the Gyeongnam Robot Land Foundation (GRF) and hosted by the Society of Naval Architects of Korea, at the recent competition held at the Convention center of ROBOCO in Masan, Gyeongsangnam-do, the team PASS from Pukyong National University won the Advanced Convergence Technology Prize, the Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy Award including all five awards and won the all-round victory for the second year in a row.

KABOAT 2021 is a competition to spread the government's R&D achievements for fostering the advanced marine and shipbuilding industry, revitalize university research, nurture outstanding talent, and discover advanced technologies in the marine and shipbuilding field.

Among the participation of 29 teams from 18 universities across the country, they designed and manufactured autonomous boats weighing 100 kg or less, and played in four events including remote control, autopilot, autonomous navigation, and docking in full-size tanks.

The team PASS from Pukyong National University has achieved excellent results in all events with stable algorithms and system configurations, equipped with processors such as Jetson Xavier and Raspberry Pi/Arduino and sensors such as GPS, IMU, LiDAR, and camera.

The team BASS (Leader Kim Dong-Han, 4th year) from the Department of Naval Architecture and Marine systems Engineering at Pukyong National University, which participated along with the PASS team, also won first place in two events including autonomous navigation and docking which is a presidential award of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea.

Advisory Professor Park Jong-Yong (Naval Architecture and Marine systems Engineering) said, "I think we got good results because we applied an improved system and supplemented the shortcomings of the technologies applied to last year's competition. Our department plans to help graduate students as well as undergraduate students develop the competency related to autonomously operated ships and strive to develop a system that can accelerate the autonomous navigation of ships." <Pukyong Today>