The peculiarities of the unmanned ships operaiting
The article material reflects the trend development implementing into the shipping industry practice the vessels without a crew on board. Equipping modern ships with integrated monitoring and control systems allows the ship's power plant to be operated without the constant presence of the engine crew members. Many issues related to the maintenance of mechanisms and devices are resolved during inter-trip stops by special personnel. This brings the crew activities closer to the working conditions of the technological facilities operators and stimulates the appearance of means of transport with a small crew or no crew at all. Maritime Autonomous Surface Ship (MASS), as they are classified in international practice, are already a reality and it is necessary to reasonably approach the control system as the number of such objects increases and their technical improvement. The main attention in the article is paid to the role and location of ship specialists, without whom it is practically impossible to operate a ship power plant in technically competent manner, regardless of its type and design features. Examples of already operating MASS are given. The authors consider the most realistic options for an artificial intelligence system formation and endowing it with the functions of monitoring the state and control of the elements of ship power engineering.