arXiv AI

Explainable Failure Prediction and Prevention in Maritime

arXiv AI
Sep 12

Understanding Operator Attitudes Toward AI-Supported Decision Making in Maritime Operations

The study surveyed maritime professionals on their attitudes toward AI‑supported decision assistants in collision‑avoidance scenarios. Results show a generally positive disposition toward maritime technology, stable trust across scenarios, and nuanced, scenario‑sensitive ratings of explanation quality. Open‑ended feedback highlighted the importance of decision‑support, situational awareness, and confidence‑building, while raising concerns about AI reliability, over‑reliance, and loss of expertise.

By Doreen Jirak, Armeen Saroukanoff, Dirk van Rooy
arXiv AI
Aug 11

Exploring LLM Capabilities for Situational Understanding and COLREG compliance on real-world maritime navigation scenarios

arXiv:2608. 08281v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown considerable capability for situational understanding, reasoning, and decision making in different domains, most notable in the automotive sector.

By Julius Wirbel, P. Nicholas Hansen, Line K. H. Clemmensen, Roberto Galeazzi
arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 3

Reliability-aware short-term roll prediction for unmanned surface vehicles via multi-task learning and adaptive centralization

The paper introduces a reliability‑aware short‑term roll prediction framework for unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) that combines a multi‑task learning architecture with an adaptive centralization strategy. The model uses a shared backbone to feed a regression head for precise roll prediction and a quantification head for confidence scoring, enabling accurate predictions alongside reliability estimates. Experiments on a real‑sea dataset show that the approach effectively quantifies prediction reliability and generalizes well across varying operational conditions.

By Kaizhen Li, Xi Zhou, Zihao Wang, Dan Zhang, Jianjian Liu, Xiaowei Li
arXiv AI
Sep 15

Toward a Decision-Assurance Layer for AI-Assisted Flight Planning in Air Traffic Management

arXiv:2609.13552v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative AI is increasingly being used informally in Air Traffic Management (ATM) for tasks such as flight plan generation, trajectory interpretation...

By Alexandre Barreto (George Mason University), Shou Matsumoto (George Mason University), Jorge Valverde-Rebaza (Tecnol\'ogico de Monterrey), Cleiton Ataide (DECEA: Department of Airspace Control), Paulo Costa (George Mason University)
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 14

A Large-Scale AIS Dataset from Finnish Water

This paper introduces a large AIS dataset from Finnish waters, covering the Baltic Sea and Finnish lakes, with 229 million data points. It curates and categorises existing AIS data, adds new recordings, and provides ship type listings and visualisations of traffic patterns. The resource is positioned to support research into maritime activities and vessel behaviour in this dynamic region.

By Debayan Bhattacharya, Ikram Ul Haq, Carlos Pichardo Vicencio, Sebastien Lafond
arXiv AI
Aug 6

Risk Is Not the Target: A Monotonic Framework for Evaluating Wildfire Operational Risk Signals

arXiv:2607. 21597v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Evaluating wildfire risk systems using standard machine-learning metrics such as F1-score or IoU is fundamentally flawed: these metrics assess event prediction accuracy, not the operational coherence of a continuous risk signal.

By Nicolas Caron, Christophe Guyeux, Hassan Noura, Maxime Coulmeau, Benjamin Aynes
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 4

From Vessel Trajectories to Safety-Critical Encounter Scenarios: A Generative AI Framework for Autonomous Ship Digital Testing

arXiv:2603. 28067v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Digital testing has emerged as a key paradigm for the development and verification of autonomous maritime navigation systems, yet the availability of realistic and diverse safety-critical encounter scenarios remains limited.

By Sijin Sun, Liangbin Zhao, Xiuju Fu