Safe Trajectory Planning for Maritime Surface Ships

Introduction.- Problem definition.- Methodology for safe trajectory planning.- Deterministic algorithms.- Non-deterministic algorithms.- Registration of navigational data.- Evaluation of algorithms.

Agnieszka Lazarowska received her B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering, from Gdynia Maritime University (Poland), in 2007, 2008 and 2015, respectively. Since 2015, she has been working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ship Automation of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at Gdynia Maritime University. With more than ten years' experience in the development of collision avoidance and path planning algorithms for ships and autonomous vehicles, her research covers guidance systems, decision support systems and path planning algorithms for autonomous navigation, as well as deterministic and nondeterministic optimization methods, artificial and swarm intelligence-based methods for safe navigation of unmanned and autonomous ships, and other autonomous vehicles. In 2018-2019, she was a research coordinator and principal investigator of the project Research on New Obstacle Avoidance Algorithms for Ships (NOAA) founded bythe International Association of Maritime Universities (IAMU) and the Nippon Foundation, Japan. She has been teaching courses on control theory, digital circuits and microcontroller programming.