Artificial intelligence to predict critical events in port operations
摘要
Port downtime is one of the most important economic and safety issues. The objective of this paper is the design of a predictive tool based on machine learning, capable of identifying downtimes. We have compared two approaches: one that uses the moored ship motions and follows a more theoretical approach. It is based on the physics of the problem, but has the difficulty of using movements that are obtained in a costly and complex way. The other option directly estimates the probability of downtime from ocean-meteorological data and ignores the moored ship motions. This is a simplification, as it omits movement constraints, but it is also more realistic, as it is very complex to obtain data on the state of moorings or estimated tension. The dataset uses ocean-meteorological forecast data and downtimes recorded during the port operations of 799 ships obtained during 8 years. We applied regression models to obtain the variables related to infragravity wave and moored ship motions. We performed a multiclass random forest classification by adjusting the weighting of the dataset to identify the most promising approach. We evaluated techniques such as random forest or gradient boosting machine, selecting the GBM for better validation performance, with a log-loss of 0.0103. We obtained F2 and F1 scores of 0.971 and 0.941 respectively, with which the model correctly classified 98% of the anchorages and 88% of the berthing disruptions. Error analysis by sea state and by stay record indicates that some of them are due to the subjectivity inherent in the anchoring phenomenon. The tool offers an alternative to the traditional analysis of significant movements through an easily exportable methodology.