In recent years, the research of multiple unmanned surface vessels collaboration has
received great attention. More and more researchers have proposed different methods of …

Abstract Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) are deemed as the future of maritime
transport. Although showing attractiveness in terms of the solutions to emerging challenges …

Automatic berthing is at the top level of ship autonomy; it is unwise and hasty to hand over
the control initiative to the controller and the algorithm without the foundation of the …

In the past decades, considerable attention has been paid to bio-inspired intelligence and its
applications to robotics. This paper provides a comprehensive survey of bio-inspired …

This paper aims at the identification and assessment of High-Impact Research Papers
(HIRPs) on the Berth Allocation Problem (BAP) research at marine terminals. The BAP …

A significant number of Maritime Bibliometric Studies (MBSs) have been published over the
past years. The present research aims to evaluate a large amount of the relevant literature to …

The importance of Maritime transportation energy conservation and emission reduction has
been increasingly recognized. A novel bio-inspired method utilizing the favorable …

In nature, emergent collective behaviors suggest that the followers would obtain energy
benefit from positive interaction with the leader's wake by certain configurations. This article …

Highly automated vehicles are making their way towards implementation in many modes of
transportation, including shipping. From the safety perspective, it is critically important that …

To accurately understand the behavior of ships sailing in restricted waterways, it is
necessary to scientifically analyze the influence of the bank effect on the hydrodynamic force …