The intelligent navigation is a major revolution in the shipping industry. In order to trace the development of the intelligent navigation technology, this paper analyzes the major technological progresses and the typical practice cases in the field of the intelligent navigation of ships in Europe, Japan, South Korea, Russia and other countries and regions in recent years, and the relevant legislations and rules of IMO, IHO and IALA for the intelligent navigation of ships, along with the processes and cases of China's ship intelligent navigation in the fields of technology research, equipment development, and real ship application, and makes comparisons, focusing on the differences in domestic and foreign technological development paths, and the main characteristics of China's ship intelligent navigation development. Finally, this paper makes predictions of the future development trend of the intelligent navigation technology.

intelligent navigation  /  MASS  /  guidance system