Supervision concept for situated human driving applied to inland shipping

In recent years, the need for networked and safe transport systems (vehicles, ships, trains, aircrafts) has increased. In inland waterway transport, remote-controlled operation controlled by a person at the same station on land, allows to increase the safety of traffic, might solve especially the problem of shortage of qualified nautical personnel, and reduces costs. Furthermore, the illustration of the decision behavior and the development of strategies for supervision of the captain-vessel-interaction are important for the realization of a work flowmanagement allowing the evaluation of the captain's actions, the detection and classification of errors, the suggestion of desired situation-related actions, and if necessary the take over of the driving functionality in case of critical situations. The contribution of this work is to propose a concept for super-vision of the captain-vessel-interaction. The captain's behavior is mapped into a Situation-Operator-Modeling approach-based description to describe the real world actions as a graph-based-model allows to generate a net of upcoming actions depending on each other denoted as action space. A new kind of action space-based supervision is developed and the core of a work ftowmanagement for the remotely operating human driving inland vessels. The main result of this contribution is related to the possibility and the illustration of the captain's interaction and decision behavior in specific maneuver situations.