This project aims to develop and to implement modules of an expert system for the automated detection and assessment of nautical situations. This system will use server-based provision of processed data (wind, waves, tidal currents, ship traffic, nautical reports, etc.) for direct operational server services.
Moreover, the project also includes the exemplary development of user and display interfaces (on board conventional manned ships and for use in shore-based monitoring stations, as e.g. traffic control centers) with the aim of anticipating the requirements of an expert system resulting from introducing autonomous ships.
Finally, tests and demonstrations will be carried out in the ship handling simulator and in the experimental system of the VTS simulator at the Maritime Simulation Center Warnemünde (MSCW). The development and creation of the nautical expert system for shore-based services will be largely carried out at Wismar University of Applied Sciences.
