Collision-avoidance navigation systems for Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships: A state of the art survey

X Zhang, C Wang, L Jiang, L An, R Yang - Ocean Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
The rapid development of artificial intelligence significantly promotes collision-avoidance
navigation of maritime autonomous surface ships (MASS), which in turn provides prominent …

Path planning and collision avoidance for autonomous surface vehicles II: a comparative study of algorithms

A Vagale, RT Bye, R Oucheikh, OL Osen… - Journal of Marine …, 2021 - Springer
Artificial intelligence is an enabling technology for autonomous surface vehicles, with
methods such as evolutionary algorithms, artificial potential fields, fast marching methods …

[HTML][HTML] A method for the direct assessment of ship collision damage and flooding risk in real conditions

M Zhang, F Conti, H Le Sourne, D Vassalos, P Kujala… - Ocean …, 2021 - Elsevier
Collision accidents may lead to significant asset damage and human casualties. This paper
introduces a direct analysis methodology that makes use of Automatic Identification System …

Deep reinforcement learning-based collision avoidance for an autonomous ship

DH Chun, MI Roh, HW Lee, J Ha, D Yu - Ocean Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
Social interest in autonomous navigation systems for autonomous ships is also increasing.
For a robust autonomous navigation system, the location, speed, and direction of the ship …

[HTML][HTML] Ship trajectory prediction based on bi-LSTM using spectral-clustered AIS data

J Park, J Jeong, Y Park - Journal of marine science and engineering, 2021 - mdpi.com
According to the statistics of maritime accidents, most collision accidents have been caused
by human factors. In an encounter situation, the prediction of ship's trajectory is a good way …

Model-reference reinforcement learning for collision-free tracking control of autonomous surface vehicles

Q Zhang, W Pan, V Reppa - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a novel model-reference reinforcement learning algorithm for the
intelligent tracking control of uncertain autonomous surface vehicles with collision …

Fuzzy domain and meta-heuristic algorithm-based collision avoidance control for ships: Experimental validation in virtual and real environment

R Fiskin, O Atik, H Kisi, E Nasibov, TA Johansen - Ocean Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
Collisions at sea are frequently caused by human-related factors, such as; manoeuvre
timing mistakes, risk assessment failures and deficiencies in strategies for collision …

Multi-ship encounter situation adaptive understanding by individual navigation intention inference

S Wang, Y Zhang, Y Zheng - Ocean Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
The multi-ship encounter situation at sea is characterized by high complexity and
uncertainty, which is a big challenge for both traditional ships and the new autonomous …

Testbed scenario design exploiting traffic big data for autonomous ship trials under multiple conflicts with collision/grounding risks and spatio-temporal dependencies

A Bakdi, IK Glad, E Vanem - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous ships are promoted as the future of the maritime transport industry aiming to
overcome conventional vessels in terms of performance, safety and environmental impact …

A collision avoidance approach via negotiation protocol for a swarm of USVs

Y Ma, Y Zhao, A Incecik, X Yan, Y Wang, Z Li - Ocean Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
For solving collision avoidance issue of a swarm of unmanned surface vehicles (USVs)
under complex situations, a collision avoidance approach using a negotiation protocol for …