An Evaluation Method of Autonomy for Marine Unmanned Vehicles

With the maturity of unmanned technology, unmanned systems are widely used in various fields, and the autonomy level has become the focus of designers and users. How to evaluate the autonomy level of unmanned system accurately and reasonably has become the focus of research. In this paper, the concept of autonomy is studied. Then, the evaluation methods of autonomy for unmanned system are reviewed in the order of the level evaluation method, the axis method, the fuzzy evaluation method. According to the study results, an evaluation method of autonomy for marine unmanned vehicle is proposed finally.

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