A view of Shin Chae-ho, a 3,000-ton diesel submarine, during a ceremony to hand over the to the Navy, at the HD Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. in Ulsan, 299 kilometers southeast of Seoul, South Korea. Photo by YONHAP / EPA
June 10 (Asia Today) -- HD Hyundai said Wednesday it will work with the University of British Columbia on advanced naval ship technologies as the South Korean shipbuilding group expands local cooperation tied to Canada's submarine procurement project.
HD Hyundai said it signed a memorandum of understanding with UBC to develop advanced digital and artificial intelligence-based autonomous ship navigation systems and next-generation naval vessel structures.
The agreement was signed Monday at UBC's campus in Vancouver. Participants included Chang Young-jae, deputy consul general at the South Korean Consulate General in Vancouver; Chang Kwang-pil, head of HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering's Future Technology Institute; and James Olson, dean of UBC's Faculty of Applied Science.
Under the agreement, HD Hyundai and UBC will pursue joint research and development in future shipbuilding technologies, including AI-based ship design, digital twin simulations and autonomous navigation systems.
