Ship collision avoidance methods: State-of-the-art

Y Huang, L Chen, P Chen, RR Negenborn… - Safety science, 2020 - Elsevier
Collision prevention is critical for navigation safety at sea. At early ages, researchers aimed
at developing navigational assistance systems for enhancing situational awareness of …

A study of the application barriers to the use of autonomous ships posed by the good seamanship requirement of COLREGs

XY Zhou, JJ Huang, FW Wang, ZL Wu… - The Journal of …, 2020 - cambridge.org
Autonomous ships are gaining in importance and are expected to shape the future of the
global shipping industry. This evolutionary shift raises serious issues about compliance with …

A collision avoidance decision-making system for autonomous ship based on modified velocity obstacle method

W Shaobo, Z Yingjun, L Lianbo - Ocean Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper proposed a new collision avoidance decision-making system designed for
autonomous ship. The system outputs collision avoidance decisions based on the latest …

Towards supervisory risk control of autonomous ships

IB Utne, B Rokseth, AJ Sørensen, JE Vinnem - Reliability Engineering & …, 2020 - Elsevier
The objective of this paper is to outline a framework for online risk modelling for autonomous
ships. There is a clear trend towards increased autonomy and intelligence in ships because …

Intelligent collision avoidance algorithms for USVs via deep reinforcement learning under COLREGs

X Xu, Y Lu, X Liu, W Zhang - Ocean Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
In the field of unmanned surface vehicles, intelligent collision avoidance technology is
essential to ensure the safety of navigating. In this paper, the problem of avoiding moving …

Efficient COLREG-compliant collision avoidance in multi-ship encounter situations

Y Cho, J Han, J Kim - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ship collisions are major types of maritime accidents which may involve the loss of life and
significant damage to property and the environment. Although many automatic ship collision …

[HTML][HTML] A ship collision avoidance system for human-machine cooperation during collision avoidance

Y Huang, L Chen, RR Negenborn, P Van Gelder - Ocean Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) attract increasing attention in recent
years. Researchers aim at developing fully autonomous systems that replace the role of …

Improving stand-on ship's situational awareness by estimating the intention of the give-way ship

L Du, F Goerlandt, OAV Banda, Y Huang, Y Wen… - Ocean …, 2020 - Elsevier
The lack of situational awareness is a major cause of ship collisions. Thus, enhancing the
situational awareness of the stand-on ship is a key for navigational safety, where the …

Autonomous maritime collision avoidance: Field verification of autonomous surface vehicle behavior in challenging scenarios

DKM Kufoalor, TA Johansen, EF Brekke… - Journal of Field …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We present results from sea trials for an autonomous surface vehicle (ASV) equipped with a
collision avoidance system based on model predictive control (MPC). The sea trials were …

[HTML][HTML] A COLREG-compliant ship collision alert system for stand-on vessels

L Du, OAV Banda, F Goerlandt, Y Huang, P Kujala - Ocean Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
Bridge alarms are a plausible way to reduce the ship collision probability by timely alerting
the officer on watch of a conflict. However, there currently are no dedicated methods for …