The research group of the Faculty of Computer Science and Telecommunications consists of 16 researchers and experts representing different fields: navigation, geodesy, computer sciences, automation and control, IT, ICT. The group includes 3 professors, 6 Ph.D.’s, 3 assistants, and 4 experts. Three of the group members are master mariners. The research infrastructure used by the group includes more than 20 specialised simulators and laboratories such as ECDIS, Full-Mission Simulator, ARPA and 4 computer laboratories including artificial intelligence and machine learning laboratory with 3 humanoid robots. Important infrastructure components are research and training ships owned by the Maritime University of Szczecin, particularly the training and research ship Nawigator XXI. The group’s research achievements include building a prototype NAVDEC navigational decision support system, the world’s first navigational tool to perform information functions and those typical of decision support systems. Its innovative functionalities, significantly extending the performance of devices generally carried by ships, have been a subject of patent at home and internationally (patent no EP2504719).
The expertise offered includes:
- data acquisition, integration, fusion and sharing;
- analysis and assessment of navigational situations based on simulations performed using real data and modern computer technologies;
- navigation-related decision support in collision situations via a shipboard decision support system installed on the navigational bridge of merchant;
- vessels (sea-going and inland shipping), leisure boats (e.g. sailing ships, motor yachts), and as a component of land-based vessel traffic services systems (VTS, VTMS, VTMIS, RIS);
- analysis and assessment of marine accidents at sea and on inland waterways via a system intended for experts working for maritime courts;
- marine officer training courses in Collision Regulations via application of specialised modules of navigational simulators (e.g. ship-handling, ECDIS);
- design and construction of computer systems supporting decision making processes and actions taken by navigators on board ships and in land-based centres;
- autonomous systems and autonomous navigation.
The group is interested in cooperation in:
- automatic navigational data acquisition and distribution;
- analysis of navigational information and generation of solutions to collision situations accounting for the Collision Regulations and marine good practice;
- autonomous navigation of ships;
- automation of decision-making processes in autonomous and remote controlled objects;
- interaction with a navigator supervising the system;
- communication, co-operation and co-ordination of actions with other ships and land-based centres responsible for vessel traffic management (VTS and others);
- automation of transport processes in maritime shipping;
- machine learning;
- soft computing;
- image recognition.
Additional information (e.g. previous experience in Framework Programmes, experience related to innovation projects, prizes, participation in international organisations): EU Baltic Sea Research and Development Programme (BONUS). Flagship Project in the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region: “The Enhanced Situational Awareness to Improve Maritime Safety in the Baltic ESABALT” (2014-2016).
Thematic area - Cluster in Horizon Europe: 4. Digital, Industry and Space.