Intelligent Ships
Tingting Yang
Abstract In the era of big data, the development of intelligent ships is accelerating,
and intelligent ships have become the main direction of future development of ships
and shipping. This chapter briefly introduces the related concepts of intelligent ships,
and focuses on the application technologies of intelligent ships and the legal and
regulatory issues it will face in the future development. The key technologies of
intelligent ships involve information perception technology, intelligent decisionmaking technology, intelligent routing technology, marine communication network
security technology, route planning technology, autonomous navigation technology,
state monitoring and fault diagnosis technology and so on. In the future, the development of intelligent ships must strengthen the amendment and improvement of
maritime conventions and laws, and introduce relevant laws, regulations and norms.
1 The Concept of Intelligent Ships
Intelligent ships refer to the use of sensors, communications, the Internet of things,
such as the Internet technology, automatic perception and obtain the ship itself, the
marine environment, logistics, port and other information and data, and based on
computer technology, automatic control technology and data processing analysis
technology. A ship that realizes intelligent operation in navigation, management,
maintenance and cargo transportation. To make ships safer, more environmentally
friendly, more economical and more reliable (China Classification Societies 2015).
Intelligent ships can be divided into four development stages. The first stage of
intelligent ships is limited to remote monitoring and data analysis of marine equipment status. In the second stage, intelligent ships make use of cloud computing,
internet of things, big data analysis and other technologies to provide timely safety,
environmental protection and energy efficiency optimization suggestions for ships
by connecting onshore centers, so as to realize semi-automatic navigation. In the
T. Yang (*)
School of Electrical Engineering and Intelligentization, Dongguan University of Technology,
Dongguan, China
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
P. K. Mukherjee et al. (eds.), Maritime Law in Motion, WMU Studies in Maritime
Affairs 8, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31749-2_34
703
Tingting Yang
Abstract In the era of big data, the development of intelligent ships is accelerating,
and intelligent ships have become the main direction of future development of ships
and shipping. This chapter briefly introduces the related concepts of intelligent ships,
and focuses on the application technologies of intelligent ships and the legal and
regulatory issues it will face in the future development. The key technologies of
intelligent ships involve information perception technology, intelligent decisionmaking technology, intelligent routing technology, marine communication network
security technology, route planning technology, autonomous navigation technology,
state monitoring and fault diagnosis technology and so on. In the future, the development of intelligent ships must strengthen the amendment and improvement of
maritime conventions and laws, and introduce relevant laws, regulations and norms.
1 The Concept of Intelligent Ships
Intelligent ships refer to the use of sensors, communications, the Internet of things,
such as the Internet technology, automatic perception and obtain the ship itself, the
marine environment, logistics, port and other information and data, and based on
computer technology, automatic control technology and data processing analysis
technology. A ship that realizes intelligent operation in navigation, management,
maintenance and cargo transportation. To make ships safer, more environmentally
friendly, more economical and more reliable (China Classification Societies 2015).
Intelligent ships can be divided into four development stages. The first stage of
intelligent ships is limited to remote monitoring and data analysis of marine equipment status. In the second stage, intelligent ships make use of cloud computing,
internet of things, big data analysis and other technologies to provide timely safety,
environmental protection and energy efficiency optimization suggestions for ships
by connecting onshore centers, so as to realize semi-automatic navigation. In the
T. Yang (*)
School of Electrical Engineering and Intelligentization, Dongguan University of Technology,
Dongguan, China
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
P. K. Mukherjee et al. (eds.), Maritime Law in Motion, WMU Studies in Maritime
Affairs 8, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31749-2_34
703