The introduction of maritime autonomous surface ships (MASSs) has prompted a significant shift in the role of navigators from traditional navigation to supervising artificial intelligence (AI) collision avoidance systems or managing operations from remote operation centers (ROCs). This may be problematic because the integration of AI technologies into collision avoidance systems may jeopardize safety ...

Shocks have attracted considerable interest in reliability and maintenance engineering because of their impact on vulnerable systems. Most industrial systems suffer from both internal degradation caused by fatigue and wearout, and external shocks that often occur randomly due to harsh weather conditions, overloading, etc. Developing maintenance optimization models without taking these stochastic ...

I Norge finnes to karriereveier innen undervisning og forskning i høyere utdanning. Veien fra stipendiat via førsteamanuensis til professor er den mest brukte. Men en tredel av de tilsatte i høyere utdanning er tilsatt i en karrierestige som går fra universitets- eller høgskolelektor via førstelektor til dosent. De to karriereveiene kan sies å være knyttet til ulike kunnskapsregimer. I de siste 20 ...

The marine navigation environment can become further complex when ships with different autonomy levels are introduced. To ensure navigation safety in such a mixed environment, advanced ship predictor type technologies are essential in aiding ship navigators to attain the highest levels of situation awareness (SA). Consequently, precise ship trajectory prediction, specifically within a short prediction ...

Tackling the grand challenges of global climate change for the sustainability of ecological and societal systems requires data and expertise from Russia, the world's largest country that has the longest Arctic shoreline and the largest forest biome, peatland and permafrost zones. Academic relations and scientific collaborations with Russian scholars and institutions must continue despite the ensuing ...

Assessment of reliability of personal computer is a challenge for the developer as the lack of sufficient data. Ordinary statistical approach depending on large dataset has less convincible result for the developer to make decision. Prior to massive production, the computer manufacturer runs a life test by picking up a certain number of new computers to run to failure to enlarge the data set. ...

The fuel life cycle involves different phases of extraction/refinery (well to tank: WtT), transport (tank to propeller: TtP), and storage where each of these processes can add a specific amount of emissions to the overall LCCA inventory. During the extraction or operation of machinery on the raw material, the released amount of GHG components is undergoing a change in the generated emissions per ...

Digital twin type models can be developed for physical systems that are complex nonlinear a system of systems (SoS). However, such models are usually difficult to represent by linear equations. Therefore, an adequate linearization technique should be introduced. Therefore, linear models as digital twins can be interpreted easily and need much less computational power when applied to various industrial ...

There is a requirement to comply with the forthcoming IMO & EU requirements to reduce ship emissions by at least 40% in 2030 compared to the 2008 levels. Such medium-term emission reduction targets can only be achieved by introducing novel technologies into the shipping industry. The SeaTech H2020 project (seatech2020.eu) introduces two main innovations that can support the same emission reduction ...

The policy literature has generally conceptualised crises as urgent public threats with clearly demarcated ‘focusing events’. Consequently, most studies have identified the main challenges faced by expert agencies involved in evidence-based policymaking as managing uncertainty, time pressure and communication. However, less focus has been devoted to analysing the concrete challenges faced by expert ...