CORADDU , Andrea

In this paper the authors investigate the problems of predicting the fuel consumption and of providing the best value for the trim of a vessel in real operations based on data measured by the onboard automation systems. Three different approaches for the prediction of the fuel consumption are compared: White, Black and Gray Box Models. White...

The main purpose of this work is to build a data driven model to create realistic operating profiles in order to assess and compare different design solutions. The proposed approach takes advantage on the new generation of automation systems which allow gathering a large amount of data from on-board machinery. A data driven modeling of the...

The shipping industry is today increasingly concerned with challenges related with sustainability. CO $$:2$$ emissions from shipping, although they today contribute to less than 3% of the total anthropogenic emissions, are expected to rise in the future as a consequence of increased cargo volumes. On the other hand, for the 2 $$^circ $$ C...

The maintenance of the several components of a Ship Propulsion Systems is an onerous activity, which need to be efficiently programmed by a shipbuilding company in order to save time and money. The replacement policies of these components can be planned in a Condition-Based fashion, by predicting their decay state and thus proceed to...

The behavior and interaction of the main components of Ship Propulsion Systems cannot be easily modeled with a priori physical knowledge, considering the large amount of variables influencing them. Data-Driven Models (DDMs), instead, exploit advanced statistical techniques to build models directly on the large amount of historical data...