Survey on short-term technology developments and readiness levels for autonomous shipping

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Survey on short-term technology developments and readiness levels for autonomous shipping

Conference Paper (2018)

Author(s)

Laurien van Cappelle (Student TU Delft)

Linying Chen (TU Delft - Mechanical Engineering)

Rudy Negenborn (TU Delft - Mechanical Engineering)

Research Group

Transport Engineering and Logistics

Review Technology readiness level Autonomous surface vessel Short-term technology development

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00898-7_7 Final published version

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Publication Year

2018

Language

English

Research Group

Transport Engineering and Logistics

Pages (from-to)

106-123

Publisher

Springer

ISBN (print)

978-3-030-00897-0

ISBN (electronic)

978-3-030-00898-7

Event

ICCL 2018: 9th International Conference on Computational Logistics (2018-10-01 - 2018-10-03), Vietri sul Mare, Italy

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Abstract

Recently, Autonomous Surface Vessels (ASVs) have attracted a lot of attention. Developing a fully autonomous vessel is challenging. Existing research provides a track from existing manned vessels to a remote-controlled vessel with reduced crews, an unmanned remote-controlled vessel, and at the end, a fully autonomous vessel. The first step is to equip existing vessels to realize autonomous sailing. In this paper, we focus on the technologies that make existing vessels “smarter”. A categorization of technologies is provided based on the basic architecture of ASV: Navigation, Guidance, Control and Hardware. An overview of the technology developments in each category is presented. The Technology Readiness Level (TRL) is applied to indicate whether these technologies could become commercial in the short term.