Center Purpose
“Transportation Industry Collaborative Innovation Platform of Intelligent Port Logistics”, which was led by Shanghai Maritime University, was recognized by the Ministry of Transport, as one of the first nine collaborative innovation platforms based on universities in March 2014. Later, the Collaborative Innovation Center of Intelligent Port Logistics is established on the basis of the Collaborative Innovation Platform in 2016.
The center is developed in accordance with the vision of “addressing urgent industry needs, world-leading, advanced system, and outstanding contribution”. Relying on the disciplines of “Management Science and Engineering” and “Control Science and Engineering”, closely adhering to the leading edge issues of “Intelligent System cooperative Control and Dispatching”, the center focuses on the key technologies of smart ports and smart logistics, such as collaborative sensing, collaborative control, collaborative scheduling and optimization, and builds a complete knowledge base of intelligent port collaborative control and scheduling theory.
The purpose of the center is to generate knowledge and innovation in the intelligent port logistics theory and technology through research-education integration, and to translate the scientific breakthroughs into applicable technologies that make great industrial, economic and societal impact.
Center Roles & Activities
The Center pursues a diverse range of subjects including Internet of Things, collaborative sensing, collaborative control, collaborative scheduling and optimization at the leading edge of intelligent port logistics technology. The key research areas include:
1. Intelligent Internet of Things technology and application: researches on the characteristics and architecture of intelligent Internet of Things; intelligent sensing technology; vehicle networking technology that stably interconnects vehicles, vehicles and roads, vehicles and fleet management systems; the application of Internet of Things technology in modern logistics and smart ports, etc..
2. Smart port collaborative sensing and control: port IoT distributed sensing technology and smart port integrated monitoring technology; port, anchorage safety monitoring technology for dangerous goods by the integrated water-land-space modes; machine vision and deep learning based AGV composite positioning navigation and automatic driving technology; collaborative interaction and processing technology between terminals operation management system and equipment control management system; autonomous collaborative control of port unmanned systems in complex operating environments (AGV, UAV, etc.).
3. Collaborative scheduling and optimization of smart port logistics: the integration of multi-modal transport (such as road-water, road-railway, railway-water, water-water) information flow, and coordination and optimization of the logistics; multi-objective collaborative scheduling method under the dynamic mode of time priority and energy priority; multi-agent and GPU algorithm based vehicle-port-ship collaborative scheduling and optimization for the coordinated internal and external resource (including AGVs, cards, quay cranes, ships, hazardous chemicals transportation, etc.) in ports and shipping; collaborative optimization and operation design between storage, yard and logistics park; 3D visualization technology based simulation and optimization of logistics system, etc..
Center Objective
The center aims to expand its research, education and outreach activities through attracting world leading academics, talented young researchers and students, for the development of world class innovation center. It will be developing guided by the important needs of the government and enterprises, with the goal of developing the intelligent port logistics theory and technology, and connecting scientific breakthroughs and innovation with industrial needs.
