Situation Awareness under Collision Risk and Navigation Safety in the Intelligent Ship Era
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 (31 May 2019) | Viewed by 20767
Special Issue Editor
Interests: maritime and offshore systems & controls; instrumentation; data analytics; machine learning and artificial intelligence; autonomous navigation; intelligent guidance and decision support; condition monitoring and condition-based maintenance; energy efficiency and emission control, safety, risk and reliability
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The accuracy of the collision risk assessment is an important factor when evaluating the navigation safety under situation awareness of ship encounter situations. Since the collision avoidance actions of ship navigators completely depend on the risk of possible collisions or near-miss situations (i.e. within a considerable confidence interval), the same risk will influence their decision-making process. However, the decision-making process of ocean-going vessels can be further complicated by close encounter situations with remote-controlled, autonomous and manned vessels in the intelligent ship era. It is believed that adequate measures to evaluate situation awareness including the collision risk assessment in such encounters should be implemented in future vessels to improve their navigation safety.
Ship encounter situations, related to possible near-miss and collision situations, are regulated by the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea 1972 (COLREGs) in open sea areas. Furthermore, additional local navigation rules and regulations can be enforced on ships, especially in confined waters and maritime traffic lanes. On the other hand, if the collision risk can be detected relatively far away from a ship encounter situation, then vessels can take appropriate actions to avoid even a close encounter situation. That step can eliminate the possibility of any close ship encounter situation.
A navigator should always be on the bridge to evaluate/re-evaluate the collision risk with respect to expected or unexpected ship behaviour resulting from his course and speed control actions. Unexpected ship behaviour can complicate the navigator`s decision-making process in some situations, where an adequate understanding of the situation may not be possible. When on-board systems are making the same decisions for future autonomous vessels, this can further complicate not only those system decisions but also their interactions (i.e. the outcomes) with the decisions made by manned vessels (i.e. human decisions).
Therefore, we are calling for research reflecting on overarching and cross-sectorial topics that relate to these challenging issues in future vessels. Research manuscripts addressing the empirical sectors, theoretical methods and applications should be submitted with an emphasize on how their findings can be relevant to a broad audience concerned with situation awareness under collision risk and navigation safety in the intelligent ship era.
Dr. Lokukaluge Prasad Perera
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Ship Collision Avoidance
- Situation Awareness
- Risk Assessment
- COLREGs
- Autonomous Ship
- Remote Controlled Ships
- e-COLREGs
- Decision Supporting
- Advanced Predictor
- Decision-Making
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