IoT-Enabled Autonomous Maritime Navigation in Smart Ports: A Curriculum-Guided Shared Policy Learning Framework
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As smart port infrastructures increasingly rely on autonomous maritime devices enabled by the Internet of Things (IoT), ensuring reliable onboard navigation intelligence has become a critical challenge for safe and scalable operations in congested waterways. This paper investigates onboard autonomous navigation for such IoT devices under partial observability and dense traffic conditions. A curriculum-guided reinforcement learning framework with a shared recurrent policy is developed to enhance temporal reasoning, deployment scalability, and robustness of edge-level decision-making. Centralized training is adopted as an offline design-time strategy, while all navigation actions are executed fully onboard, consistent with IoT edge intelligence paradigms. Extensive simulations in multiple realistic port environments demonstrate that the proposed approach improves navigation reliability, collision avoidance, and training stability compared with standard baseline methods, and generalizes effectively to previously unseen high-density scenarios. The results indicate that curriculum-guided shared learning provides a practical solution for scalable deployment of IoT-enabled autonomous maritime devices in smart port operations.
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