TY - GEN AB - Future waterborne transport operations in short-sea, sea-river, and inland waterways can be performed by autonomous vessels. The automation of maritime shipping directly emphasizes reducing crew numbers, minimizing operational costs, andmitigating human error during the operation. Recent researches have focused on understanding autonomous navigation while the reliability of unattended machinery plant has received very little attention. This paper aims at developing a method for predicting the performance of failure-sensitive components that may be left unattended in autonomous shipping. The presented methodology adopts Bayesian Inference as the basis of the artificial intelligence for predicting maintenance schedules including repair, inspection, and irregular checks of unattended systems. A Multinomial Process Tree (MPT) is used to model the failures within the system, identify faulty components, and to predict their failure times. A real case study from a short sea voyage is adopted to demonstrate the application of the presented methodology. The results of this research will assist decision and policy-makers to prevent costly failures in Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) and extend the service life of autonomous systems before any human intervention. AD - Technical University of Delft, Netherlands; AD - University of Strathclyde, UK AD - Queensland University of Technology, Australia AU - Abaei, MM AU - BahooToroody, A AU - Arzaghi, E DA - 2020-10-05 ID - 7750 JF - Conference Proceedings of iSCSS KW - Autonomous Shipping KW - Reliability Engineering KW - Multinomial Process Tree KW - Bayesian Inference Unattended Machinery L1 - https://library.imarest.org/record/7750/files/iSCSS_2020_Paper_23.pdf L2 - https://library.imarest.org/record/7750/files/iSCSS_2020_Paper_23.pdf L4 - https://library.imarest.org/record/7750/files/iSCSS_2020_Paper_23.pdf LK - https://library.imarest.org/record/7750/files/iSCSS_2020_Paper_23.pdf N2 - Future waterborne transport operations in short-sea, sea-river, and inland waterways can be performed by autonomous vessels. The automation of maritime shipping directly emphasizes reducing crew numbers, minimizing operational costs, andmitigating human error during the operation. Recent researches have focused on understanding autonomous navigation while the reliability of unattended machinery plant has received very little attention. This paper aims at developing a method for predicting the performance of failure-sensitive components that may be left unattended in autonomous shipping. The presented methodology adopts Bayesian Inference as the basis of the artificial intelligence for predicting maintenance schedules including repair, inspection, and irregular checks of unattended systems. A Multinomial Process Tree (MPT) is used to model the failures within the system, identify faulty components, and to predict their failure times. A real case study from a short sea voyage is adopted to demonstrate the application of the presented methodology. The results of this research will assist decision and policy-makers to prevent costly failures in Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) and extend the service life of autonomous systems before any human intervention. PY - 2020-10-05 T1 - Predicting Future of Unattended Machinery Plants: A Step Toward Reliable Autonomous Shipping TI - Predicting Future of Unattended Machinery Plants: A Step Toward Reliable Autonomous Shipping UR - https://library.imarest.org/record/7750/files/iSCSS_2020_Paper_23.pdf VL - iSCSS 2020 Y1 - 2020-10-05 ER -