Interaction of Harsh Weather Operation and Collision Avoidance in Autonomous Navigation

Taking into account the autonomous navigation system design and today’s state of the art navigation with regards to weather and collision avoidance, this paper presents the architecture of the integrated approach, its links to existing rules and regulations and the test scenarios. These demonstrate how safe and efficient navigation of autonomous vessels can be achieved by showing the module's interaction and validating the feasibility of the approach. These analyses will be based on historical traffic data sets as well as simulation results.

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