The Remote Driving and Control (RDC) system constitutes a key component within the technical advancement of intelligent shipping. Its closed-loop operational framework integrates a shore-based monitoring and control platform, many shipboard perception devices, autonomous control units, and high-reliability communication systems. Comprehensive validation of the RDC system in the inland waterway serves as a critical transitional phase from theoretical development to engineering implementation in intelligent shipping. Hence, this study establishes a multi-dimensional performance encompassing key points such as course keeping accuracy, path tracking robustness, collision avoidance efficacy, communication link stability, and human-machine cooperation efficiency. Experimental results demonstrate that systematic testing can be effectively realized within the constructed hardware and software platform, contributing to enhanced operational safety and control performance of RDC systems. These findings offer empirical evidence for the iterative advancement of intelligent shipping technologies. Through the design and execution of multi-scenario experiments and system-level performance assessments, this study identifies critical technical challenges in RDC, including communication latency, bottlenecks in perceptual information fusion, consistency in decision-making, and operator cognitive load under human-in-the-loop conditions. • The RDC technology of “perception-decision-control-communication” was tested. • The functions required for RDC in the inland waterways were accomplished. • The transition to human-machine cooperation was achieved in intelligent shipping. • It attempted to construct a performance evaluation for the RDC system.
Zou et al. (Sat,) studied this question.