Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

5-2021

Abstract

Modeling vessel movement in a maritime environment is an extremely challenging task given the complex nature of vessel behavior. Several existing multiagent maritime decision making frameworks require access to an accurate traffic simulator. We develop a system using electronic navigation charts to generate realistic and high fidelity vessel traffic data using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). Our proposed Ship-GAN uses a conditional Wasserstein GAN to model a vessel’s behavior. The generator can simulate the travel time of vessels across different maritime zones conditioned on vessels’ speeds and traffic intensity. Furthermore, it can be used as an accurate simulator for prior decision making approaches for maritime traffic coordination, which used less accurate model than our approach. Experiments performed on the historical data from heavily trafficked Singapore strait show that our ShipGAN system generates data whose statistical distribution is close to the real data distribution, and better fit than prior methods.

Keywords

Generative Adversarial Networks, Maritime Traffic Simulation

Discipline

Digital Communications and Networking | OS and Networks

Research Areas

Intelligent Systems and Optimization

Publication

Proceedings of 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Virtual Conference, 2021 May 3-7

First Page

1755

Last Page

1757

Identifier

10.5555/3463952.3464227

City or Country

Virtual Conference

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