Explainable artificial intelligence for autonomous driving: A comprehensive overview and field guide for future research directions

S Atakishiyev, M Salameh, H Yao, R Goebel - IEEE Access, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous driving has achieved significant milestones in research and development over
the last two decades. There is increasing interest in the field as the deployment of …

Review of research progress of autonomous and unmanned shipping and identification of future research directions

I Jovanović, M Perčić, A BahooToroody… - Journal of Marine …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The maritime industry is following the trend of increased autonomy and digitalisation applied
in aviation, automotive, military, and chemical industries. Maritime autonomous and …

A novel deterministic search-based algorithm for multi-ship collaborative collision avoidance decision-making

R Zhen, Z Shi, Q Gu, S Yang - Ocean Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
Ship collision avoidance is critical to maritime safety, but maritime traffic patterns are
becoming increasingly complex as the number of vessels of all types increases. Therefore …

A fuzzy Bayesian network risk assessment model for analyzing the causes of slow-down processes in two-stroke ship main engines

V Başhan, M Yucesan, M Gul… - Ships and Offshore …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This paper presents a risk assessment approach for analyzing the causes of malfunction-
related main engine slowdowns. A fuzzy Bayesian Network-based methodology is used to …

Autonomous collision avoidance method for MASSs based on precise potential field modelling and COLREGs constraints in complex sailing environments

H Lyu, W Liu, S Guo, G Tan, C Fu, X Sun, Y Zhao… - Ocean …, 2024 - Elsevier
Autonomous collision avoidance (CA) for maritime autonomous surface ships (MASSs) in
complex navigational environments requires accurate environment modelling and efficient …

Model Predictive Trajectory Optimization and Control for Autonomous Surface Vessels Considering Traffic Rules

A Tsolakis, RR Negenborn, V Reppa… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a rule-compliant trajectory optimization method for the guidance and
control of Autonomous Surface Vessels. The method builds on Model Predictive Contouring …

Cooperative-based augmentation system using Bayesian filtering

PRP Silva, MGS Bruno… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We introduce in this paper a cooperative-based augmentation system for aircraft positioning.
To that end, we derive a distributed estimation algorithm for cooperative localization over a …

A novel data-driven method of ship collision risk evolution evaluation during real encounter situations

J Liu, J Zhang, Z Yang, C Wan, M Zhang - Reliability Engineering & System …, 2024 - Elsevier
Aiming at realizing collision risk quantitative evaluation among encounter ships, a novel
data-driven evolution model is proposed concerning encounter evolution in maritime …

Provable Traffic Rule Compliance in Safe Reinforcement Learning on the Open Sea

H Krasowski, M Althoff - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For safe operation, autonomous vehicles have to obey traffic rules that are set forth in legal
documents formulated in natural language. Temporal logic is a suitable concept to formalize …

A Dynamic Context-Aware Approach for Vessel Trajectory Prediction Based on Multi-Stage Deep Learning

X Zhang, X Fu, Z Xiao, H Xu, W Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Accurate and reliable vessel trajectory prediction is challenging due to the highly non-linear,
intricate and stochastic features of maritime transport networks, but its solutions are vital for …