ICIEA 2026 Special Session

SS26: Applications of Intelligent Optimization and Control in Marine Engineering

Organized by:

Organizer 1: Can Cui

Email: cuican@ouc.edu.cn

Affiliation: Ocean University of China, China

Organizer 2: Xinli Wang

Email: wangxinli@sdu.edu.cn

Affiliation: Shandong University, China

Summary of session:

Marine engineering is a critical foundation for marine resource exploitation and marine equipment technologies, playing an indispensable role in deep-sea resource extraction, offshore energy development, and marine transportation. As marine engineering equipment continues to expand toward deep-sea and complex environments, their operational systems face increasingly stringent requirements in safety, operational efficiency, and intelligence, particularly in path planning, motion control, energy management, and system prediction. The rapid development of intelligent optimization, advanced control, and artificial intelligence technologies provides new theoretical foundations and technical means for the low-carbon and intelligent operation of marine engineering systems.

Background and Justification:

The advancement of marine resource exploitation and offshore energy development, together with the expansion of marine engineering equipment toward deep-sea and complex environments, impose stringent requirements on the reliability and efficiency of modern marine engineering systems, under which traditional planning and control approaches are often insufficient. The adoption of intelligent optimization, control, and decision-making mechanisms can significantly enhance system adaptability, operational efficiency, and stability, thereby supporting the safe, efficient, and sustainable operation of marine engineering equipment and offshore power generation systems such as deep-sea mining systems, offshore platforms, and ships.

Information of papers:

This special session focuses on advanced technologies and intelligent optimization methodologies in marine engineering, and solicits original and innovative research papers on the following technical areas and applications, including but not limited to:

• Intelligent Operation: Intelligent operation and scheduling of marine engineering systems, and safe and stable operation under complex and constrained marine environments.
• Optimization Techniques: Multi-objective and multi-constraint optimization, optimization and decision-making methods under uncertain marine environments, and path optimization for marine engineering systems.
• System Integration and Coordinated Operation: Coordinated operation of marine engineering and energy systems, and overall optimization and coordinated control of complex systems.
• Intelligent Control and Prediction: Intelligent control and performance prediction for marine engineering systems, and auxiliary systems such as HVAC on offshore platforms.