Java: to use contains in a ArrayList full of custom object should I override equals or implement Comparable/Comparator?

Question

I have an ArrayList full of these:

class TransitionState {

    Position positionA;
    Position positionB;

    int counter;

    public boolean equals (Object o){

        if (o instanceof TransitionState){

          TransitionState transitionState= (TransitionState)o;

          if ((this.positionA.equals(transitionState.positionA))
                  &&(this.positionB.equals(transitionState.positionB)))
          {
              return true;
          }
        }
     return false;

    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {

        String output = "Position A " + positionA.i+ " "+ positionA.j + " "+ positionA.orientation + " "+
                "Position B " + positionB.i + " "+ positionB.j + " "+ positionB.orientation;

        return output;
    }

}

class Position {

    int i;
    int j;
    char orientation;

    Position() {

    }


    void setIJ(int i, int j){
        this.i=i;
        this.j=j;
    }

    void setOrientation(char c){

        orientation = c;
    }

   public boolean equals(Object o){

        if(o instanceof Position){

          Position p = (Position)o;
          if((p.i==this.i)&&(p.j==this.j)&&(p.orientation==this.orientation))
          {
              return true;
          }
              else return false;

        }

            return false;
   }

} //end class Position

I query it with this:

 if(!transitionStatesArray.contains(newTransitionState)){  //if the transition state is new add and enqueue new robot positions

                 transitionStatesArray.add(newTransitionState); //marks as visited

I'm finding duplicate elements inside my transitionStatesArray, why is this?

I'm using these i,j and orientation values to fill unique values in a matrix, yet here I have a duplicate:

 S  .  N 
 *  *  * 
 .  D  D 


 E  .  O 
 *  *  * 
 .  D  D 


 N  .  S 
 *  *  * 
 .  D  D 


 S  .  N 
 *  *  * 
 .  D  D