Intelligent Ships and Waterways: Design, Operation and Advanced Technology
A special issue of Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (ISSN 2077-1312). This special issue belongs to the section "Ocean Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 May 2024) | Viewed by 33598
Special Issue Editors
Interests: ship intelligent navigation; motion planning; motion control; formation control
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Interests: ship energy efficiency measures; data-driven modeling; voyage optimization; autonomous ships
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Interests: testing of intelligent ships; intelligent navigation; ship motion modelling and control
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Interests: intelligent ship; navigation control; environment prediction
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As artificial intelligence continues to develop, unmanned or autonomous ships have begun attracting much attention with the intention of downsizing the number of staff, increasing efficiency, etc. In our opinion, the intelligence of ships should cover the full lifecycle, not just the operation procedure technologies, including route planning, fusion perception, advanced decision making, motion control with unknown environments, and testing. Moreover, waterways should provide real-time and necessary navigation services, e.g., time-varying water depth and velocity, predictive waterway conditions, ship traffic flow, for the nearby ongoing ships via shore–ship interaction. To this end, intelligent ships can be developed alongside advanced waterway technologies be improved upon as relates to waterway regulation planning, environment perception and prediction, navigation warning service, shore-based navigation, building information modelling and digital twin application, etc.
In this Special Issue, we welcome contributions from a broad range of theoretical, modeling, field and laboratory research into processes that affect intelligent ships and waterway regions, including, but not limited to, the following topics:
- Ship multi-objective design
- Route planning
- Testing of intelligent ships
- Fusion perception
- Navigation decision making
- Motion control
- Waterway regulation planning
- Environment perception and prediction
- Navigation warning service
- Shore-based navigation
- Building information modelling
- Digital twin
- Ecological waterway
Dr. Chenguang Liu
Prof. Wengang Mao
Dr. Jialun Liu
Prof. Xiumin Chu
Guest Editors
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