Marine loading system with automatic movement control, and associated method

A marine loading system including:

• an articulated fluid transfer arm having a fluid transfer line provided at one of its ends corresponding to a free end, with a coupling system suitable for being connected to a target manifold for fluid transfer, the target manifold and a target located adjacent to the target manifold each having one or more fiducial markers designed to enable a relative position to be determined;
• actuators for controlling the movement of the arm in space;
• an optical device supported by the coupling system and suitable for transmitting images of the one or more fiducial markers;
• and a controller configured to:
• control the actuators provided on the arm;
• calculate a movement trajectory of the arm towards the target manifold on the basis of the images of the one or more fiducial markers of the target and of the target manifold transmitted by the optical device, and
• generate control instructions determined on the basis of the calculated trajectory and transmitting said instructions to the actuators.