(YR) TRANSPORTATION SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Research team for the development of planned maintenance of ship systems work in the field of marine engineering, specifically in fault analysis, reliability assessments and maintenance optimization of ship systems and machinery including analyze, dinamical modeling, evaluation and  create a solution for the optimum maintenance interval of ships systems.

research team follows the trends in new technologies for the exploitation of renewable energy sources and explores the ways of applying these technologies in area of maritime affairs. The new technologies include solar energy application, fuel cells, wind capturing, mechanical energy from the motion of tides and waves.  The team investigates the production of energy from renewable resources, its distribution, storage and transformation, as well as its use for ship's propulsion and drive of other marine systems.

This multi-disciplinary group uses signal processing methods for analysis in a time, frequency and time-frequency domain in the field of the maritime and biomedicine. The main research interest of the group is a development of applied signal processing algorithms for automatic detection of Motor Evoked Potentials after excitation of brain motor cortex. Also, the group researches problems for detection of various objects on the sea bottom using deep learning algorithms.

The main area of interest of this interdisciplinary research group is research and analysis of various impacts on the marine environment. Different anthropogenic impacts on the marine environment are analyzed, with special emphasis on effects of shipping in order to assess the impact and find appropriate ways to minimize the impact and protect the marine environment.

A professional skipper is engaged in 16-20 weeks of uninterrupted work during the season, which requires exceptional psychological and physical effort, especially if we take into account the extremely demanding sleeping conditions in the absence of any life routine.

For the jobs of sailors in the Merchant Navy, there is also no research on physical demands, psychological stress, and the quality of sleep while performing jobs.

PhD Tatjana Stanivuk, CIVIL ENGINEERING, TRANSPORTATION SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, MATHEMATICS, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS

PhD Anita Gudelj, COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS

PhD Igor Jelaska, MATHEMATICS, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS

Goran Kovačević, MATHEMATICS, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS

The main goal of the research is to improve the search and rescue system at sea, especially the part related to the early detection of man at sea. Today's primary equipment for surviving in sea, required by SOLAS, is life jackets that is equipped with a whistle and a light. However, already today there are non SOLAS solutions that offer special transmitters that can help in fast and efficient finding, but they are mostly not standardized, and the equipment is relatively expensive.