Effect of Onboard Training for Improvement of Navigation Skill under the Simulated Navigation Environment for Maritime Autonomous Surface Ship Operation Training

• Published in: Applied sciences Vol. 12; no. 18; p. 9300
• Main Authors: Hwang, Hyoseon, Hwang, Taemin, Youn, Ik-Hyun
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.09.2022
• Subjects: Autonomy; Comparative analysis; Connectivity; Education; effect of training; Experiments; Feature selection; maritime autonomous surface ship; Navigation; Navigation safety; remote operator; Rudders; Ships; simulated navigation experiments; Simulation; Skills; Statistical analysis
• ISSN: 2076-3417; 2076-3417
• DOI: 10.3390/app12189300

As the technology of the maritime autonomous surface ship (MASS) systems has geared toward autonomy, the importance of human operations in the shore control center (SCC) has gained in significance. Accordingly, the effects of the training method, including the traditional and new remote operator training methods have to be investigated in terms of MASS navigation safety. Therefore, this study conducted a comparative analysis to prove the effect of onboard training. The findings include the execution of a simulated navigation experiment, the extraction of rudder steering-related features, selection of significant features, and comparative analysis with network graph visualization. The separate results obtained from the “untrained” group and “trained” group were exhibited as the purpose of research for the effect of onboard training on navigation skills. Then, the authors interpreted the difference in each group allusively in accordance with features considering actual navigation and compared groups using descriptive statistics. Consequently, this study emphasized the importance of proving the effect of training before the new training technologies are used to train MASS remote operators in the future.