• An efficient neural-network based approach to automatic ship docking 

      Shuai, Yonghui; Li, Guoyuan; Cheng, Xu; Skulstad, Robert; Xu, jinshan; Liu, Honghai; Zhang, Houxiang (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Automatic ship docking is one of the applications of autonomous ships. How to realize autonomous low-speed maneuver under environmental disturbances for docking is the fundamental problem at present. This paper presents ...
    • Conversational user interfaces for maritime autonomous surface ships 

      Hodne, Philip; Skåden, Oskar Kristoffer; Alsos, Ole Andreas; Madsen, Andreas Nygaard; Porathe, Thomas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
      We propose integrating conversational user interfaces (CUIs) into Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) to facilitate direct communication with other ships without human intervention. The aim is to enable other ships ...
    • Conversational user interfaces for maritime autonomous surface ships 

      Hodne, Philip; Skåden, Oskar Kristoffer; Alsos, Ole Andreas; Madsen, Andreas Nygaard; Porathe, Thomas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
      We propose integrating conversational user interfaces (CUIs) into Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) to facilitate direct communication with other ships without human intervention. The aim is to enable other ships ...
    • Data-driven Uncertainty and Sensitivity Analysis for Ship Motion Modeling in Offshore Operations 

      Cheng, Xu; Li, Guoyuan; Skulstad, Robert; Major, Pierre Yann; Chen, Shengyong; Hildre, Hans Petter; Zhang, Houxiang (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      To build a compact data-driven ship motion model for offshore operations that require high control safety, it is necessary to select the most influential parameters and to analyze the uncertainty of the input parameters. ...
    • Determinants, methods, and solutions of evacuation models for passenger ships: A systematic literature review 

      Arshad, Hossein; Emblemsvåg, Jan; Li, Guoyuan; Ostnes, Runar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Passenger ships facilitate the mobility of people at sea and are a significant revenue stream for societies. Simultaneously, they should meet safety standards. One of the main safety pillars is offering passengers a reliable ...
    • Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Sloshing under Roll Excitation at Shallow Liquid Depths 

      Grotle, Erlend Liavåg; Bihs, Hans; Æsøy, Vilmar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      This paper investigates sloshing at shallow-liquid depths in a rectangular container by using experimental and numerical methods. A motion platform is used to perform a prescribed periodic rotational motion to excite the ...
    • Flexible riser replacement operation based on advanced virtual prototyping 

      Yuan, Shuai; Major, Pierre Yann; Zhang, Houxiang (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      As a critical campaign in the offshore oil and gas engineering, flexible riser replacements involve complex operations that need to be optimized and detailed to factor in trends in the industry. Since it allows engineers ...
    • Holistic human safety in the design of marine operations safety 

      Pan, Yushan; Hildre, Hans Petter (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      To avoid safety issues, current marine operations safety protocols follow only the work procedures and technical structures of systems that are provided by the operator; regardless, research continues to report safety ...
    • Knowledge and data in cooperative modeling: Case studies on ship trajectory prediction 

      Kanazawa, Motoyasu; Wang, Tongtong; Skulstad, Robert; Li, Guoyuan; Zhang, Houxiang (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      A ship automation will be a key to the future maritime. In particular, ship dynamic models play an integral role. However, it is challenging to develop an accurate model readily. Recent studies proposed a physics-data ...
    • Knowledge transfer strategy for enhancement of ship maneuvering model 

      Wang, Tongtong; Skulstad, Robert; Kanazawa, Motoyasu; Li, Guoyuan; Zhang, Houxiang (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      The advancement of autonomous vehicles and concerns about ship navigation safety have resulted in a greater need for ship model quality. However, in situations where there is limited prior information or data available ...
    • Model-free anti-swing control of complex-shaped payload with offshore floating cranes and a large number of lift wires 

      Ren, Zhengru; Verma, Amrit Shankar; Ataei, Behfar; Halse, Karl Henning; Hildre, Hans Petter (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Being one of the most commonly used offshore operations, offshore lifting operations become increasingly challenging due to the gradually growing size and weight of payloads. The research on automatic control in lifting ...
    • Response validation of a submerged floating tunnel segment 

      Liu, Ting; Hansen Viuff, Thomas; Leira, Bernt Johan; Xiang, Xu; Minoretti, Arianna; Halse, Karl Henning (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Tube segments are the main structural components of submerged floating tunnels (SFTs). Accurately estimating the hydrodynamic properties of these components is of critical importance for the optimization and safe design ...
    • A sensitivity quantification approach to significance analysis of thrusters in dynamic positioning operations. 

      Wang, Chunlin; Li, Guoyuan; Skulstad, Robert; Cheng, Xu; Osen, Ottar Laurits; Zhang, Houxiang (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      The safety of offshore operations is highly dependent on the dynamic positioning (DP) capability of a vessel. Meanwhile, DP capability comes down to the ability of the thrust generated by thrusters to counteract environmental ...
    • Ship maneuvering model optimization for improved identification with less excitation 

      Li, Shiyang; Wang, Tongtong; Li, Guoyuan; Zhang, Houxiang (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      The precise model of a ship is the foundation for its operation and control. The traditional methods of building such models are time-consuming and require large amounts of simulation data, sea trial experiments, or ...
    • Short-term ship roll motion prediction using the encoder–decoder Bi-LSTM with teacher forcing 

      Li, Shiyang; Wang, Tongtong; Li, Guoyuan; Skulstad, Robert; Zhang, Houxiang (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
      The safety of maritime operations has become a paramount concern with the advancement of intelligent ships. Ship stability and safety are directly impacted by roll motion, making the prediction of short-term ship roll ...
    • Towards uncertainty and sensitivity analysis for modal parameters identification during ice–structure interaction 

      Wang, Chunlin; Nord, Torodd Skjerve; Ziemer, Gesa; Li, Guoyuan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      The integrity of offshore structures is prone to the threat of drifting sea ice. By exciting the natural frequencies of the ice–structure interaction system, severe vibrations may occur. For a better understanding of how ...