The essence of the path planning problems is multi-modality constraint. However, most of
the current literature has not mentioned this issue. This paper introduces the research …

Internal combustion engine vehicles, although conventionally playing essential roles in
seaport logistic operation, are major sources of carbon emissions. To guarantee the “green …

Improving the autopilot capability of ships is particularly important to ensure the safety of
maritime navigation. The unmanned surface vessel (USV) with autopilot capability is a …

Autonomous pilot is crucial in integrally promoting the autonomy of an unmanned surface
vehicle (USV). However, the integration mechanism of decision and control is still unclear …

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has excellent performance in continuous control
problems and it is widely used in path planning and other fields. An autonomous path …

A novel approach is proposed to automatically identify the ship collision avoidance
behaviour from ship trajectories based on an improved Sliding Window Algorithm. The …

As the number of ships for marine transportation increases with the globalisation of the world
economy, waterways are becoming more congested than before. This situation will raise the …

The increasing attention and rapid development of intelligent ship technologies makes it
possible to real applications to merchant shippings. The mixture of conventional and …

Path planning is a key issue in the field of coastal ships, and it is also the core foundation of
ship intelligent development. In order to better realize the ship path planning in the process …

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 …