It is not easy to create courses tailored for the operators of Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USV), Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROV), and Underwater Autonomous Vehicles (UAV) as well as solutions for mapping, surveying, and navigation on water and, for subsea operations.
Why training
As you might know, Orione creates training courses to operate maritime autonomous vehicles and other high-end solutions for subsea operations and hydrographic surveys. With deep knowledge of the technology behind a solution manufactured by our clients, a dedicated trainer is appointed as a course instructor. He/she works with product experts, operators, and other key players in the industry to provide bespoke training courses tailored for end-users. This involves the need for broad knowledge across various technical aspects in the field of marine robotics but also a good grasp of practical operational constraints, especially in offshore operations, basic marine survey techniques, underwater acoustics systems, autonomous navigation, and manual piloting.
People often ask: ”What are the key benefits?”
- Courses on unmanned vessels are generally designed to help users build the basic knowledge needed to understand how to safely operate, deploy, recover, store, and transport a vehicle. But also, to be able to troubleshoot, make some repairs, diagnose problems, and make preventive maintenance.
- When delivering a training curriculum on a survey-grade sensor, the aim is to clarify the key theoretical concepts relevant to a specific type of equipment to make operators aware of the limitations imposed by the physics of the marine environment, so to help maximize performance. A course provides guidance on how to make an installation, interface with other sensors, manage settings, and all the operational procedures for safe deployment for accurate data acquisition. If applicable, some aspects behind routine maintenance, troubleshooting, and basic repairs are also taught.
What does it take to deliver such courses?
Most of the time, a theoretical course is delivered on a dedicated e-learning platform customized for our clients. In doing so, participants gain remote access to the platform, learn about solutions, and obtain a certification. In this respect, Orione delivers all necessary didactic content. This service includes the provision of the tools to produce rich media content such as videos, presentations with pre-recorded audio played on slides, photographs, text lessons, quizzes, documents, checklists, and much more. All content is kept up to date for the duration of the service.
When necessary, a trainer might also lead the practice sessions, where procedures are reviewed, and the theoretical aspects are verified in real life. This may include coaching on piloting, commissioning, mobilization, making a small survey, troubleshooting, and everything else that is necessary to become familiar with the key challenges behind a typical mission.
If you wish to see an example of one of our training services, please visit: https://elearning.ixblue.com
The challenges
The main difficulty is having the skills. This post was indeed written to entice possible candidates to join our team. As you can imagine, it is not easy to create courses tailored for the operators of USV, ROV, and UAV as well as solutions for mapping, surveying, and navigation on water and, for subsea operations. Experts are needed in the technology used in unmanned vehicles, but also inertial navigation (INS), acoustics subsea positioning/navigation (USBL/LBL/DVL), software for navigation in subsea operations, including autonomous navigation techniques, visual positioning technology, real-time tracking systems, GNSS, radio systems, acoustic sensors, and hydrographic survey technology in general.
Often our instructors score very well on most of the key requirements presented below:
- Higher education in robotics in the context of advancing marine and maritime science and their technological applications
- Education in hydrography with experience as ROV/USV/UAV supervisor
- Strong basis of applied robotics for underwater intervention missions, safe autonomous subsea operations, and marine robotics for scientific and commercial applications
- Experience as a course instructor, trainer, teacher, tutor, or any other educational function requiring a vision of effective pedagogy
- Very strong in the technology of survey-grade sensors, IT, electrical circuitry, mechanics, physics, mathematics
- Familiar with basic settings for electronic devices used in navigation and survey (GNSS, MBES, USBL, INS, etc.) including navigation software suite, but also ROS and IP networks
- Skilled in giving presentations and creating didactic content
- Handyman, and/or generally able to work with most tools in a standard toolbox
- Master of the English natural language, both spoken and written,
- Have seafaring skills and certifications to demonstrate a clear understanding of the relevant extant IMO instruments (COLREGs, SOLAS, MARPOL, and STCW)
So, if after reading this post you feel inspired to spontaneously apply for a position as an instructor, please send your CV, LinkedIn profile link, and a brief explanation of why you feel you qualify for this position to: info@orione.ee . If we see interest in your profile, we will DEFINITELY get back to you.
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