Safety and efficiency of human-MASS interactions: towards an integrated framework

R Song, E Papadimitriou, RR Negenborn… - Journal of Marine …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) have gained much attention as a safer and
more efficient mode of transportation and a potential solution to reduce the workload of …

[HTML][HTML] Sampling-based collision and grounding avoidance for marine crafts

TT Enevoldsen, M Blanke, R Galeazzi - Ocean Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Collisions and groundings account for a great deal of fiscal losses and human risks in the
statistics of marine accidents related to ocean going vessels. With highly automated vessels …

Exploring the behavior feature of complex trajectories of ships with Fourier transform processing: a case from fishing vessels

Q Zhu, Y Xi, S Hu, Y Chen - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The significant uncertainty and complexity of vessels at sea poses challenges for regulatory
bodies in the fishing industry. This paper presents a method for identifying fishing vessel …

Autonomy for ferries and harbour buses: a collision avoidance perspective

TT Enevoldsen, M Blanke, R Galeazzi - IFAC-PapersOnLine, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper provides a collision avoidance perspective to maritime autonomy, in the shift
towards Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS). In particular, the paper presents the …

[HTML][HTML] Prediction-enabled path planning for multi-ship encounters in Oslofjord

M Zhu, W Tian, R Skulstad, H Zhang, G Li - Ocean Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
Maritime navigation in multi-ship encounters presents challenges due to dynamic
perturbations and complexity, which lead to elevated safety concerns. Conventional path …

Scenario modeling method for collision avoidance testing in inland waterway

H Zhou, M Zheng, X Chu, C Liu, C Zhong - Ocean Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
To generate autonomous collision avoidance encounter scenarios for inland waterway
vessels, according to the characteristics of inland waterways, this paper presents a method …

Automatic Reset of Kinetic Energy in Case of Inevitable Collision of Ships

S Zinchenko, K Kyrychenko, O Grosheva… - 2023 13th …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Considered issues of automatic reset of kinetic energy along the gradient in case of
inevitable collision of ships. The target function of the fastest reset of kinetic energy is formed …

Stochastic COLREGs Evaluation for Safe Navigation under Uncertainty

PN Hansen, D Papageorgiou, R Galeazzi… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The encounter situation between marine vessels determines how they should navigate to
obey COLREGs, but time-varying and stochastic uncertainty in estimation of angles of …

GreenHopper: The Danish spearhead towards autonomous waterborne mobility

M Blanke, PN Hansen, K Dittmann… - Journal of Physics …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
GreenHopper is the first Danish zero-emission ferry developed as a test platform for
autonomous waterborne navigation technologies. The paper presents technology …

Indirect Vessel Velocity Control to Reduce the Impact of Underwater Noise at Cetacean Locations

M Ardhaoui, MJD Otis, S Diagne - 2024 IEEE 20th International …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a novel approach to reducing the environmental impact of marine traffic
on cetaceans, focusing on controlling vessel velocity to minimize underwater noise. The …