Orient Express Racing Team

The 37th America's Cup kicks off in Barcelona today with the Preliminary Regatta, the first and last chance for all teams to test their boats against each other on the water before the Louis Vuitton Cup Challenger Selection Series begin next week. ⛵🏆 Advanced Navigation is proud to be supporting Orient Express Racing Team, representing #France, by equipping them with our inertial navigation technology. The precision it provides will enable them to extract peak performance from their #AC40 and #AC75 race boats.  🇫🇷 Watch the video below to learn how this technology influences their tactical decisions during training, helping them keep their boat on its foils and fly across the water. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gZ7cSfnY

How can software offer a racing team a competitive advantage in the upcoming 37th America’s Cup? Just ask Orient Express Racing Team! ⛵ The elite team, housed within sports tech firm K CHALLENGE RACING & LAB, aims to win the most prestigious international sailing competitions, including the America’s Cup. Mastering this ultra-competitive environment is the drive behind the company’s creativity and capacity for innovation. And we’re excited to help them in their endeavors! Working in close collaboration with Siemens’ Simcenter Engineering Services, Orient Express Racing Team is gaining an understanding of real-world performance of the hydraulic flight and aeronautic systems that control sails and rudder/foil flaps actuation. Digital twins of these systems have been built, parameterized and functionally validated (along with the creation of dedicated libraries) that help ensure the layout and interface are comprehensive and easy to operate in a multidisciplinary team effort spanning the Performance, Mechatronic and Hydraulic groups. “Sailing boats have dramatically changed since the arrival of foil technology enabling them to fly above the water. Managing two fluids and all the new aerospace flying technologies has become a real challenge as the game is completely changed,” said Stephan Kandler, CEO of K-Challenge and Orient Express Racing Team. “Digital twins and virtual testing became a major breakthrough to enhance the R&D of the boats besides real sailing. Having Siemens on our side was a key element of K-Challenge Racing & LAB's strategy in the America’s Cup but also for other developments in the maritime transport decarbonation." When the team finds that performance is deviating from expectations, data from the water is taken as reference and engineers introduce modifications in the systems model to try and match simulation results and data – which allows them to target inspection and maintenance more accurately and efficiently. During race preparations, there is also potential to use the same digital twin-based systems model, already prepared for real-time performance, to be exploited for streaming live data from the race to the models and to compare the response in real time. And when the boat is not at sea, the systems models are connected to K-Challenge’s virtual-reality simulator. Our news release explains more - check link in comments below ⤵️ #DigitalTwins #SiemensXcelerator #AC37 #OERT