Human Factors Challenges in Unmanned Ship Operations – Insights from Other Domains

Wahlström, Mikael; Hakulinen, Jaakko; Karvonen, Hannu; Lindborg, Iiro

doi:10.1016/j.promfg.2015.07.167

Cited by 74 publications

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“…(2015) and Wahlström et al. (2015) focused on the human factor issues related with the design of a shore control center. The former identified the potential gaps that may decrease the operator's situational awareness and affect the decision quality during navigation.…”

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Autonomous vessels: state of the art and potential opportunities in logistics

Góez

Guajardo

et al. 2020

Int Trans Operational Res

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The growth in technology on autonomous transportation systems is currently motivating a number of research initiatives. This paper first presents a survey of the literature on autonomous marine vessels in general. By identifying the main research interests in this field, we define 10 thematic categories. The collected articles are then classified according to these categories. We show that research on autonomous vessels has increased dramatically in the past decade. However, most of the published articles have focused on navigation control and safety issues. Studies regarding other topics, such as transport and logistics, are very limited. Although our main interest is the literature on autonomous vessels, we contrast its development with respect to the literature on autonomous cars so as to have a better understanding about the future potentials in the research on autonomous vessels. The comparison shows that there are great opportunities for research about transportation and logistics with autonomous vessels. Finally, several potential research areas regarding logistics with autonomous vessels are proposed. As the technology behind remote‐controlled or autonomous ships is maturing rapidly, we believe that it is already time for researchers in the field to start looking into future water‐borne transport and logistics using autonomous vessels.

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Autonomous vessels: state of the art and potential opportunities in logistics

Góez

Guajardo

et al. 2020

Int Trans Operational Res

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“…Technical failures can play an important role at the outset, as in most newly systems; as experience increases, they can be expected to be overcome. But human error would continue to be a huge challenge for unmanned ships [67][68][69]. e shore-based control of the ship contains new safety issues and an interesting question will be the interaction of manned and unmanned vessels in the same tra c zone.…”

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Safety Risk Analysis of Unmanned Ships in Inland Rivers Based on a Fuzzy Bayesian Network

Zhang

Yang

et al. 2019

Journal of Advanced Transportation

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Risk factor identification is the basis for risk assessment. To quantify the safety risks of unmanned vessels in inland rivers, through analysis of previous studies, the safety risk impact factor framework of unmanned vessels in inland rivers is established based on three aspects: the ship aspect, the environmental aspect, and the management and control aspect. Relying on Yangtze River, a fuzzy Bayesian network of the sailing safety risk of unmanned ships in inland rivers is constructed. The proposed safety risk model has considered different operational and environmental factors that affect shipping operations. Based on the fuzzy set theory, historical data, and expert judgments and on previous works are used to estimate the base value (prior values) of various risk factors. The case study assessed the safety risk probabilities of unmanned vessels in Yangtze River. By running uncertainty and sensitivity analyses of the model, a significant change in the likelihood of the occurrence of safety risk is identified, and suggests a dominant factor in risk causation. The research results can provide effective information for analyzing the current safety status for navigation systems of unmanned ships in inland rivers. The estimated safety risk provides early warning to take appropriate preventive and mitigative measures to enhance the overall safety of shipping operations.

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“…The main difference between such vision and today's practice is that a human will remain in charge but will not be exposed to weekslong separation from social life and risks present at high seas. Such an arrangement creates certain issues by itself [13,24,36,37].…”

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confidence: 99%