Collision avoidance of autonomous ships in inland waterways: A survey and open research problems

Promoting autonomous surface ships in inland waterways traffic (IWT) is a potential solution towards reducing road traffic and transport emission footprints. Over the last decade, there has been a growing research on autonomous ships for open waters. However, applying this research to the IWT domain is not straightforward. The IWT, due to its...

A collision avoidance algorithm with intention prediction for inland waterways ships

Collision avoidance is one of the most challenging problems in developing a Maritime Autonomous Surface Ship. This paper proposes a pro-active collision avoidance algorithm for inland waterway ships. The algorithm addresses the problem of avoiding collisions with dynamic obstacles by applying a situation-based intention prediction for...