The collaborative autonomous shipping experiment (Case)

The collaborative autonomous shipping experiment (Case): Motivations, theory, infrastructure, and experimental challenges

Haseltalab, A. (TU Delft Transport Engineering and Logistics)
Garofano, V. (TU Delft Transport Engineering and Logistics)
Afzal, Muhammad Raheel (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Faggioni, Nicoló (University of Genova)
Li, Shijie (Wuhan University of Technology)
Liu, Jialun (Wuhan University of Technology; National Engineering Research Center for Water Transport Safety (WTSC))
Ma, Feng (Wuhan University of Technology; National Engineering Research Center for Water Transport Safety (WTSC))
Martelli, Michele (University of Genova)
Singh, Yogang (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Slaets, Peter (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
You, Xu (Wuhan University of Technology; National Engineering Research Center for Water Transport Safety (WTSC))
Negenborn, R.R. (TU Delft Transport Engineering and Logistics)

2020

The future autonomous ships will be operating in an environment where different autonomous and non-autonomous vessels with different characteristics exist. These vessels are owned by different parties and each uses its owned unique approaches for guidance and navigation. The Collaborative Autonomous Shipping Experiment (CASE) aims at emulating such an environment and also stimulating the move of automatic ship control algorithms towards practice by bringing together different institutes researching on autonomous vessels under an umbrella to experiment with collective sailing in inland waterways. In this paper, the experiments of CASE 2020 are explained, the characteristics of different participating vessels are discussed and some of the control and perception algorithms that are planned to be used at CASE 2020 are presented. CASE 2020 will be held in parallel to iSCSS 2020 at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands.

Collaborative Shipping
Model Vessels. Autonomous Shipping
Obstacle Avoidance
Path Planning
Trajectory Tracking

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:8943f59e-c723-4772-abc0-8394fdf1eb1e

https://doi.org/10.24868/issn.2631-8741.2020.014

Proceedings of the International Ship Control Systems Symposium, 1

15th International Naval Engineering Conference and Exhibition incorporating the International Ship Control Systems Symposium, INEC/iSCSS 2020, 2020-10-05 → 2020-10-09, Virtual, Online

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© 2020 A. Haseltalab, V. Garofano, Muhammad Raheel Afzal, Nicoló Faggioni, Shijie Li, Jialun Liu, Feng Ma, Michele Martelli, Yogang Singh, Peter Slaets, Xu You, R.R. Negenborn