Towards autonomous maritime operations

Abstract

The main purpose to push the development towards autonomous maritime operations in shipping and offshore installations, is to increase the performance of maritime activities; by social benefits for staff or other related personal groups; by economic benefits when the ability to increase the cargo or effectuate better space allocation; by environmental benefits that's allow the ship operations to be optimized for routing, speed, etc.; and finally by an increased safety benefit in all these aspects. The increased use of artificial intelligent based benefits is expected to increase the operational performance of all the above aspects in the sense that an overall quality in logical and knowledge based will be consistent. The increased complexity of maritime activities and the offshore business requires more precise and automated solutions to achieve the expectations from staff, stakeholders, and society.