The safety of maritime autonomous surface ships (MASS) in mixed waterborne transport system (MWTS) depends on effective situational awareness (SA) distribution among MASS, manned ships, and various stakeholders, such as Vessel Traffic Service (VTS), Remote Control Center (RCC) and Fairway Shipping Agency. This paper focuses on the research question: How can situational awareness be effectively distributed among these entities in mixed waterborne transport? The research objective is to develop a distributed situational awareness framework that unifies SA among these stakeholders, ensuring safe navigation and compatibility with users of different roles. To achieve this objective, the proposed framework incorporates three key concepts: individual SA, authority-based SA, and distributed SA. Individual SA, previously introduced in our study, is responsible for each ship’s SA, while authority-based SA accounts for the SA of human operators supervising the waterborne transport system, such as VTS operators and fairway agency personnel. Distributed SA generates guiding messages for ships based on the situational awareness from both individual SA and authority-based SA, thereby enabling regulation-based and traffic control-based recommendations for waterborne transport (e.g., ship speed and course adjustments). The research methodology employs ontology-based modelling to implement the framework, constructing a domain knowledge network. A case study is conducted as an essential part of the research methodology, presenting how the framework perform the situational awareness from different aspects and inconsistency detection among manned ships, MASS, VTS operators, and so on. Semantic Web Rule Language (SWRL) is utilized to detect inconsistencies and generate guidance messages for ships. Through these cases, we demonstrate how the proposed Ontology-based framework can reconcile inconsistencies between individual and authority-based SA, leading to a safer and more effective waterborne transport.


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    Titel :

    Distributed Situational Awareness for Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships in Mixed Waterborne Transport: An Ontology-based Framework


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    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2023-08-04


    Format / Umfang :

    999722 byte





    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch



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