Science

The research of the Department of Autonomous Systems focuses on the following areas:

Automatization of ship navigation:
   • Collision avoidance and safe path planning methods
   • Automatic ship control methods, with particular emphasis on artificial intelligence (including machine learning)
   • Autonomous navigation systems, autonomous navigation, unmanned vehicles (including USVs, UAVs, UGVs, and UUVs)
   • Reconstruction of corrupted Automatic Identification System (AIS) data

Robotics – mobile and industrial robots:
   • Navigation, environment perception, environment mapping, Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM), direction and speed control
   • Robot motion control methods
   • Path planning and obstacle avoidance
   • Human-robot collaboration

Embedded systems and Industry 4.0:
   • process and object control using microcontrollers, PLCs, and FPGAs
   • Industry 4.0 solutions, including Maritime 4.0 - Industry 4.0 solutions in the maritime industry
   • Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) and Digital Twin technology