IOC completed autonomous cruise and intelligent verification of medium and large unmanned ships, breaking through the problem of maritime data confidentiality

The Marine Commission stated today (2nd) that it has recently successfully completed the autonomous cruise and intelligent verification of medium and large unmanned vessels (USV) off the coast of Kaohsiung Port. The Maritime Commission pointed out that this innovative technology that combines "AI cruise" and "federated learning" not only breaks through the confidentiality problem of maritime data, but also writes a new page in my country's smart ocean governance.

The R&D team took the unmanned ship to the Fengbitou waters outside Kaohsiung Port for pressure testing. Under real environmental tests such as level 2 and above walruses and complex lighting, the unmanned ship successfully completed difficult tasks such as AB point obstacle avoidance, hexagonal detour, Z-shaped cruising, and "grass-cutting" large-area search. At the same time, the plan also established the country's first set of standard procedures (SOP) for actual sea area operations for medium and large unmanned ships, and has a "manual/disconnection emergency safety takeover within 3 seconds" mechanism.

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The IOC pointed out that in the past, maritime imaging often involved national defense or port area agility, and they were like isolated islands, which resulted in great restrictions on the training of AI models. This project introduced an advanced "federated learning" architecture and pioneered an innovative model in which "the data does not move but the model moves". This method can not only take into account the protection of information security and smart images, but also enable the entire unmanned fleet to achieve "co-evolution" across vehicles.

IOC stated that in the learning process of AI, there is often a technical risk of "catastrophic forgetting" where one learns new things but forgets all the old skills. In order to overcome this problem, the research team introduced "elastic weight consolidation technology", which allows the unmanned ship to never forget its already very proficient recognition capabilities of various types of merchant ships and fishing boats when it learns to identify new objects.

The Maritime Commission emphasized that the entire system algorithm of this plan is 100% independently developed and closely linked to the local supply chain. It hopes to successfully get rid of foreign export control restrictions and greatly strengthen the resilience of my country's marine scientific research and coastal defense governance.