PIANC Smart Rivers 2022

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Autonomous navigation is one fundamental function of the Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS), which has attracted numerous attention all over the world in recent years. Many researchers have proposed various intelligent systems that could support autonomous navigation in open waters, while, the human operators onboard are still necessary since the reliability and safety of the systems have not been proven. Since these systems are relying on artificial intelligence techniques that are usually unexplainable for human operators, it is challenging for human operators to understand, judge, and intervene in the decision of the navigation system in MASS. This manuscript proposed a Human-Machine Interactive Decision Support System (HMI-DSS) in MASS that could help the human operators to interpret the intention of the MASS and allow the human operators to modify the decision of the ship. The proposed HMI-DSS contains a two-layer controller. The low-level controller control the ship according to input decision from high-level controller; the high-level controller finds optimal solutions and allows human machine interactions. Specifically, the proposed HMI-DSS visualizes the decision space of the MASS; finds an executable and optimal solution for the ship; eliminates dangerous solutions for human operators; and allows the human operators to modify the solutions via the human-machine interaction. To demonstrate the function of the proposed HMI-DSS, one MASS sailing in narrow waters (inland waters) with other ships is simulated. The results show that the proposed method is friendly for human operators to interpret the decision of the MASS and interact with the ship, which has potential in the development of MASS in the future.

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