Learning from experience in the context of autonomous ships: an opportunity for a step change in generating safety knowledge?

Ventikos, Nikolaos P.; Louzis, Konstantinos

doi:10.1088/1742-6596/1357/1/012035

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“…Ahvenjarvi also recognizes the resilience and adaptability of ship officers as a potential advantage over fully autonomous systems. Ventikos and Louzis [51] emphasize the need to combine proactive safety approaches, inspired by the memory property of the immune system with experiential learning to effectively manage the risk knowledge associated with autonomous ship operation and traditional ships, with the aim of preventing accidents and improving risk management in maritime systems.…”

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Challenges for the Education and Training of Seafarers in the Context of Autonomous Shipping: Bibliometric Analysis and Systematic Literature Review

Meštrović,

Pavić,

Maljković

et al. 2024

Applied Sciences

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The maritime industry is undergoing a profound transformation with the integration of autonomous technologies, which brings new challenges and opportunities for the education and training of seafarers. This article aims to examine the evolving landscape of autonomous ships and its impact on maritime education, with a focus on the changing roles and responsibilities of seafarers. The levels of autonomy defined by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) provide a framework for understanding the evolution towards fully autonomous ships and highlight the changing roles and responsibilities of seafarers. Using a systematic review based on the preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses (PRISMA), this study examines maritime education for maritime autonomous surface ships (MASS). Using Scopus, Web of Science (WoS) and Google Scholar, a comprehensive search was conducted to identify relevant studies focusing on seafarer training and the impact of automation in the maritime sector. The analysis included bibliometric assessments, historical reviews and a categorization of research topics. This systematic review contributes to a deeper understanding of the current state and trends in maritime education for autonomous shipping. The findings inform educators and industry stakeholders about the critical aspects of education and training needed to address the challenges and realize the potential benefits of autonomous technologies in the maritime sector. The inclusion of bibliometric analysis enriches the study by providing a comprehensive overview of the researchers.

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Challenges for the Education and Training of Seafarers in the Context of Autonomous Shipping: Bibliometric Analysis and Systematic Literature Review

Meštrović,

Pavić,

Maljković

et al. 2024

Applied Sciences

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“…In previous work, we have introduced a novel Life-Cycle Risk Framework inspired by the mechanisms of the biological immune system, which describes a process for managing risk and capturing operational risk knowledge throughout the life-cycle of marine systems. [66][67][68] This framework consists of the following sub-processes: (1) evaluating design solutions by assessing life cycle safety performance through simulation, (2) assessing dynamic risk in operation, (3) adaptively controlling risk in operation and (4) managing risk knowledge throughout the life cycle. It suggests a distributed life cycle strategy for managing risk that mimics the following interacting layers of the biological immune response: (1) innate immunity, which is a nonspecific first line of defence against a broad range of pathogens, (2) adaptive immunity, which is a specific response to pathogens that are recognised as intruders and (3) immune memory, which is the immune system's repository for effective antibodies against encountered pathogens.…”

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Developing next generation marine risk analysis for ships: Bio-inspiration for building immunity

Ventikos

Louzis

2022

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part O:

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Research on autonomous ships has led to several ideas about how they could be operated in terms of level of automation and human presence. However, all seem to point towards systems that will be more complex due to issues such as the tighter integration with software and the interactions with humans-in-the-loop. These ships will likely be completely different compared to conventional ones, which puts into question the usefulness of our current understanding of risk and how it is managed for ensuring safe operation. By a critical review of the literature, this paper highlights the need for advanced methods that will combine machine learning and simulation for dynamically assessing risk in a life cycle context and effectively transferring acquired operational knowledge back to the design phase. The main objective of this paper is to describe a novel life cycle risk framework for developing algorithms inspired by the biological immune system, which provides lifetime protection from harmful pathogens. This framework can be used to construct machine learning algorithms for dynamic risk monitoring and adaptive risk control that address different types of risk, while enabling faster future response to previously unencountered risks and operational feedback to design through learning. We demonstrate the feasibility of our approach in a specific maritime context with a case study on collision risk identification. Considering the lack of experience for autonomous ships, the benefit of our immune-inspired approach is that it departs from the classic risk scenario concept and that it does not rely on safety performance data for identifying risk factors and training the algorithms. We suggest this framework is particularly suitable for autonomous ships with high levels of autonomy, although applicable to conventional ships as well, as it can contribute to empowering them with risk awareness and the capability to deal with any risk environment.

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Learning from experience in the context of autonomous ships: an opportunity for a step change in generating safety knowledge?

Cited by 2 publications

References 16 publications

Challenges for the Education and Training of Seafarers in the Context of Autonomous Shipping: Bibliometric Analysis and Systematic Literature Review

Challenges for the Education and Training of Seafarers in the Context of Autonomous Shipping: Bibliometric Analysis and Systematic Literature Review

Developing next generation marine risk analysis for ships: Bio-inspiration for building immunity

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