Automation of maritime shipping for more safety and environmental protection
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Tobias Ehlers
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Martin Portier
Abstract
The demands on maritime shipping, one of the oldest and most international industries in the world, are increasing. The complexity of the transport chains, their constantly increasing size and the evolving regulatory requirements with regard to safety and sustainability continuously present new challenges. In addition, unforeseeable developments and the increasing utilization of the seas by other industries cause a constant uncertainty, by political and military conflicts along main shipping routes, as well as changed routing schemes caused by introduction of new environmental protection areas. Highly automated, remote-controlled or fully autonomous ships are intended to improve safety at sea and lead shipping into a more sustainable future.
Experts in the maritime domain recommend the automation of ships (completely or partly unmanned) and the implementation of Artificial intelligence (AI) for more safety in navigation with a harmonized Maritime Cyber Risk Management. In a technology development platform such highly complex maritime systems can be validated and tested under realistic conditions, for instance to engage in determining positions more reliably and resiliently in view of the susceptibility and vulnerability of satellite-based Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), such as GPS, GLONASS or Galileo.
Zusammenfassung
Die Anforderungen an die Seeschifffahrt, eine der ältesten und internationalsten Branchen der Welt, steigen. Nicht nur die Komplexität ihrer Transportketten, ihre ständig zunehmende Größe und die sich weiterentwickelnden regulatorischen Anforderungen bezüglich Sicherheit und Nachhaltigkeit stellen sie kontinuierlich vor neue Herausforderungen. Auch unvorhersehbare Marktentwicklungen und die zunehmende Nutzung der Meere durch andere Branchen verursachen eine stete Unsicherheit. Hoch automatisierte, ferngesteuerte oder vollständig autonom fahrende Schiffe sollen deshalb in Zukunft helfen, die Sicherheit auf See zu verbessern und die Seeschifffahrt nachhaltiger zu gestalten.
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- Editorial
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Towards new shores or back to the roots?
- Forum
- Automation of maritime shipping for more safety and environmental protection
- VeLABi – Research and control center for autonomous inland vessels
- Survey
- Review of pose estimation within European ship-automation projects using GNSS-based navigation
- Applications
- Towards semi-autonomous operation of an over-actuated river ferry
- A combined guidance and control concept for autonomous ferries
- Automated maneuvering using model-based control as key to autonomous shipping
- Risk mitigation by design of autonomous maritime automation systems
- Autonomously mapping shallow water environments under and above the water surface
- Persönliches
- Zum 90. Geburtstag von Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Henning Tolle – Einige sehr persönliche Erinnerungen
- Herrn Prof. Henning Tolle zum 90. Geburtstag
