Multi-attribute decision-making method for prioritizing maritime traffic safety influencing factors of autonomous ships’ maneuvering decisions using grey and fuzzy theories

Ship maneuvering decisions are influenced by several factors, and it is essential to prioritize the main influencing factors for efficient selection of the corresponding maneuvering decisions. Meanwhile, the autonomous ship maneuvering decision-making influencing factors constitute a typical grey system, which is suitable for research by grey relational analysis. Furthermore, in the fuzzy approach, linguistic assessment of factors is evaluated...