Autonomy is not what you think: assessing the external costs of autonomous shipping through AUTOSHIP IWW use case study aims to speed up transition towards next generation ships in EU. The project will build and operate two different vessels, demonstrating their operative capabilities short-sea inland waterways scenarios, with a focus on goods mobility.

Unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) have great value with their ability to execute hazardous and time-consuming missions over water surfaces. Recently, USVs for inland waterways attracted increasing attention potential application in autonomous monitoring, transportation, cleaning. However, unlike sailing open water, the challenges posed by scenes of waterways, such as complex distribution obstacl...

Florida's coasts have been transformed over the past three decades as population growth and unprecedented demand for individual shore access to bays and estuaries led to the creation of residential canal developments. Thousands of miles of channels and basins were dredged as a by-product of this urbanization process. The navigable waterways that resulted are now being stressed by increasing boa...

Navigation on inland waterways, such as rivers, canals, fairways via reservoirs and lakes is performed under conditions of a minimum the keel clearance, hydrodynamic interaction between ship's hull underwater limits fairway, impact irregular currents. Piloting ship difficult navigational requires navigator to monitor continuously ship’s motion, assess quickly situation develop optimal decision ...