Applications of Robots in the Port and Shipping Area
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DOI: 10.23977/AICT2020038
Author(s)
Panpan Zhang, Weiting Ning and Jiuchao Zhang
Corresponding Author
ABSTRACT
In the past decades, the robot industry has been developing fast. According to the reports of International Federation of Robotics (IFR), global robot installations increased by 6% in 2018. Robots greatly facilitate the industry process. Among all the areas of national economy, the port and shipping areas play an important part. As the intelligent transportation system (ITS) flourishes, robots will be more and more important in future. In this paper, several types of robots were introduced. Applications of robots in port and shipping areas were systematically summarized. Besides, the trend of robot applications in the port and shipping areas was mentioned.
KEYWORDS
Robots; ports and sustainable; intelligent transportation systems