Autonomous surface ships have become increasingly interesting for commercial maritime sectors.Before deep learning(DL)was proposed,surface ship autonomy was mostly model-based.The development of artificial intelligenc...Autonomous surface ships have become increasingly interesting for commercial maritime sectors.Before deep learning(DL)was proposed,surface ship autonomy was mostly model-based.The development of artificial intelligence(AI)has prompted new challenges in the maritime industry.A detailed literature study and examination of DL applications in autonomous surface ships are still missing.Thus,this article reviews the current progress and applications of DL in the field of ship autonomy.The history of different DL methods and their application in autonomous surface ships is briefly outlined.Then,the previously published works studying DL methods in ship autonomy have been categorized into four groups,i.e.,control systems,ship navigation,monitoring system,and transportation and logistics.The state-of-the-art of this review paper majorly lies in presenting the existing limitations and innovations of different applications.Subsequently,the current issues and challenges for DL application in autonomous surface ships are discussed.In addition,we have proposed a comparative study of traditional and DL algorithms in ship autonomy and also provided the future research scope as well.展开更多
基金This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.52101388).
文摘Autonomous surface ships have become increasingly interesting for commercial maritime sectors.Before deep learning(DL)was proposed,surface ship autonomy was mostly model-based.The development of artificial intelligence(AI)has prompted new challenges in the maritime industry.A detailed literature study and examination of DL applications in autonomous surface ships are still missing.Thus,this article reviews the current progress and applications of DL in the field of ship autonomy.The history of different DL methods and their application in autonomous surface ships is briefly outlined.Then,the previously published works studying DL methods in ship autonomy have been categorized into four groups,i.e.,control systems,ship navigation,monitoring system,and transportation and logistics.The state-of-the-art of this review paper majorly lies in presenting the existing limitations and innovations of different applications.Subsequently,the current issues and challenges for DL application in autonomous surface ships are discussed.In addition,we have proposed a comparative study of traditional and DL algorithms in ship autonomy and also provided the future research scope as well.
