Maritime Reporter, August 2006

<BODY> <div> Abu Dhabi Ship Building recently opened the Middle East's largest facility for building composite vessels. ADSB is already established in build- ing steel and aluminum ships, and this expansion is designed to enable it to compete in the expanding military and commercial market throughout the region. Work has started on the first composite vessel and discussions are currently at an advanced stage for build- ing 12 vessels for the UAE Coast Guard. The $8.2m facility at ADSB's Mussafah (Abu Dhabi) base covers 4,650 sq. m. and is capable of building vessels up to 196.8 ft. (60 m) long. The workshop is pressurized to keep out dust and sand and is temperature and humidity controlled. ADSB Composites' first project will be a Halmatic-designed 52.5 ft. (16 m) fast workboat. With a ramped bow for beach landing and an open deck, it will be capable of transporting two Hummer size military vehicles at a speed of over 30 knots. 32 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News Shipbuilding Technology Abu Dhabi Ship Building Gets New Composite Workshop The ADSB composite workshop is the biggest of its kind in the Middle East. www.maritimesecurityexpo.com September 19-20, 2006 Jacob Javits Convention Center New York City 3000 Attendees 200 Exhibiting Companies 37 Countries Maritime Security Expo 2006 5 th Annual Expo & Conference The Largest Maritime Security Event in the World For more information on exhibiting or sponsorship opportunities, please contact Barbara Lecker, Derek Lotfi or George DeBakey at 301-493-5500 Corporate Partner: Lockheed Martin Corporate Sponsors: IBM Booz Allen Hamilton General Dynamics Information Technology Organized by: Maritime Executive Awards Sponsor: SeaAway Family of Companies Official Publications: Journal of Commerce GSN: Government Security News Official International Publication: Cargo Security International SHI Develops RTLinux Powered Robots Samsung Heavy Industries Shipbuilding Division (SHI) selected RTLinuxPro as the base for its robotics systems and has several advanced RTLinux powered robots in produc- tion use. Working with FSMLabs' Korean part- ner, RealTimeWave, engineers at SHI have cre- ated advanced shipbuilding robots including an autonomous "Spider" welder that autonomous- ly guides itself over the ships membrane wall. In addition to the Spider robot, SHI has devel- oped a RTLinux powered pipe alignment robot also in production use and a third, Stewart- Gough Type six-axes parallel robot is under development. The robots use SHI designed 3-D path tracking and real-time attitude control systems. SHI Project Leader and Managing Director Jae-Hun Kim said "RTLinuxPro and the excellent support from RealTimeWave helped us bring this com- plex equipment from design to production in record time and with low development cost." Young-Jun Park, the principal research engi- neer for SHI adds that "RTLinuxPro has a unique capability of combining very precise real-time with the standard Linux platform so that we could make the time sensitive control algorithms operate together with background processing without worrying about interfer- ence". Jae-Hun Kim also said, "SHI has interests in the ship automation and building automation sys- tem markets where we think there will be much future growth and RTLinux is a key technology for us in this area." MR AUGUST2006 #4 (25-32).qxd 8/2/2006 5:50 PM Page 32 </div> <span id="lblContents"></span> <br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.digitalwavepublishing.com/" title="Digital Magazine">Digital Wave Publishing</a> </BODY>