HR Wallingford was established to deal with problems such as coastal erosion, flood protection and the silting and scouring of rivers, estuaries and harbors. Its ambition is to solve the world’s most complex water-related challenges with specialist research and consultancy know-how. The company designs smart, resilient solutions to develop a more sustainable relation with water. Its UK headquarters is home to the UK Ship Simulation Centre. This facility houses the latest evolution of HR Wallingford’s advanced navigation simulation technology including two ship bridge simulators. Each simulator's fully functioning bridge is surrounded by a 360° simulated field of view.
“It is essential that pilots and tug masters can utilize realistic, high-quality models of their actual port, because these ship simulators are used for several very specialized tasks”, says James Clarke, Technical Director in the Ships and Dredging Group, for HR Wallingford. That is why, in order to improve the image quality and object recognition of the two ship bridges’ display systems, HR Wallingford was in need of a higher resolution display.
HR Wallingford tasked ST Engineering Antycip with installing a high-resolution 360° projection for the ship bridge simulator screens. To live up to the task, ST Engineering Antycip specified two projector arrays each comprising seven Barco F90-4K projectors. “The Barco projection hardware was equipped with 90° elbow lens optics that could address the requisite image size operating beneath the elevated bridge platform structure of the ship simulators,” says John Mould, commercial development manager for ST Engineering Antycip.
“This model of projector enabled a perceived 4K pixel resolution thanks to the high-bandwidth electronics, courtesy of the Barco Pulse architecture onboard,” Mould continues. James Clarke adds: “HR Wallingford’s ship simulators benefit from brighter and higher-resolution images that make the experience feel even more realistic for users. We are really pleased with the improved image quality, and customers have commented on the significant improvements for both day and night-time simulations, along with the increased field of view provided by the Barco projector systems.”
“We are really pleased with the improved image quality, and customers have commented on the significant improvements for both day and night-time simulations, along with the increased field of view provided by the Barco projector systems”
James Clarke
Technical Director in the Ships and Dredging Group, for HR Wallingford
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