ON THE EDGE OF TECHNICAL INNOVATIONS

Jaguar Land Rover Advanced Engineering team are working on several technical areas of collaboration which helped design the R1 race boat. They identified three main engineering work streams where Land Rover can utilize experience and knowledge drawn from vehicle design. These areas include aerodynamics and performance, control systems and machine learning. The team are applying their big data processing power and machine learning expertise to help understand the boat, and the engineering team are using artificial intelligence to explore and find patterns in sailing performance data to help ‘make the boat go faster’. Further to this, Land Rover’s engineers have worked on the boat’s giant 77ft high wingsail using their understanding of aerodynamics and the computer technology gained on developing cars, including the all-new Discovery. The team has created sophisticated software to explore the detailed and dynamic performance of the wingsail, analysing 80 million computational cells in each test, which will seek definitive results to help further performance gains;