Juan Medina Amador’s Post

👉 Great opportunity to join a team of talented people and make an impact to reduce carbon emissions in the shipping industry. 👈 🤖 Automation is at the core of what Airseas has to offer and by joining the control system team you will play a key role in advancing the flight control laws that will allow the system to become fully automated and reach performance goals. ❤️ I have been lucky enough to be a part of the team for just over a year now and I confirm it is a personally and professionally enriching experience. The fast pace environment and the need to innovate makes Airseas the perfect place for an engineer to grow as a professional. 👁 As an engineer you get to design, validate, test and redesign in a period of weeks or even days in the case of small scale tests, getting a view of the whole V cycle with your own eyes and quickly seeing the fruit of your work.

“We have come as far as we have because we are the cleverest creatures to have ever lived on Earth. But if we are to continue to exist, we will require more than intelligence. We will require wisdom.” ― David Attenborough

Happy to share that I completed the "Quantitative Methods in Systems Engineering" course from MIT xPro. With this 4th and last course, I obtained the "Architecture and Systems Engineering: Models and Methods to Manage Complex Systems" program certificate. Without methods such as model-based systems engineering, the solutions we need to solve today's industrial transition will become unmanageable. The scale of the projects and the complexity of the systems we need to reduce our footprint on the planet require new methods and tools to define the right architecture from requirement stage and to manage the different configurations and propagation of changes during their operational lifetime. Companies are realising this now because the people that developed the technology that's in operation today are no longer present and this can become blocking for future development or maintenance. A good example is the nuclear industry in France, which is struggling today because of loss of the skill and knowledge required to move the industry forward. This is why it is becoming increasingly evident that the initial investment to implement an MBSE approach is necessary to keep innovation alive and stay competitive in the long term.

I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as Automated Systems and Control Laws Designer at AIRSEAS! Because all fluids have a certain amount of viscosity any fluid (wind) flowing over a surface will be slowest at the contact point with this surface. A boundary layer is created. Additionally objects in the surface and the movement of the "surface" (in this case the ocean) relative to the fluid can create disturbances. This is why for wind power we want to go as high as possible to look for the strongest, most stable wind possible. By using a kite in tension instead of a mast in torsion/bending/compression structural limitations are reduced and space for cargo is maximised. This system allows us to go higher and use the advantages of dynamic flight to produce multiple times over the traction that we would produce with a wing or a sail of the same area at sea level. It's not all that easy though: by reducing the structural limitations of a mast and using a dynamic system in tension we add a lot of control and automation challenges to make this a simple, smart, push-button system. The flexibility of the kite, the cable and the lines, the waves, the wind itself, the movement relative to the boat... all have to be taken into account by the controllers for the system to take-off, fly and land automatically. This is why Airseas has put together an exceptional team of aeronautical, aerospace and maritime engineers and doctors, which I am grateful to be a part of. I'm constantly learning and challenged by the complexity of the system, which I still have a lot to learn about. But this is the environnement I want to be in: dynamic, exciting and meaningful. We are growing every week so if you're looking to join the adventure check out the careers site: https://lnkd.in/eYrjR2F3 20% reduction in emissions = 20% savings per boat per year in fuel consumption and this is just the first of the multiple economic advantages of the system. Regulation compliance and thus prolonged ship lifetime, incentives from dock operators for "greener ships"... And it doesn't matter what source of energy you use, saving 20% is always good. There is so much more to say about Airseas and so much more that Aiseas offers such as the eco routing system to optimise the trajectory based on meteorological data... But I'll let you check it out in the website if you want to know more: https://airseas.com/en/

Completed the third of 4 courses towards the Architecture and Systems Engineering program from MIT xPRO: Model-Based Systems Engineering: Documentation and Analysis