Autonomy for Ships: A Sovereign Agents Architecture for Reliability and Safety by Design

Autonomous systems strive to obtain salient features that include computer intelligence for obtaining situation awareness, decision support to a human navigator, or for facilitating autonomous decision-making in unmanned vehicles. This paper considers the case of autonomous marine surface vehicles,...

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Main Authors: Dittmann, Kjeld, Hansen, Peter Nicholas, Papageorgiou, Dimitrios, Blanke, Mogens
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Autonomous systems
Bridges
Computer architecture
Maintenance engineering
Navigation
Reliability engineering
Unmanned vehicles
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Summary:Autonomous systems strive to obtain salient features that include computer intelligence for obtaining situation awareness, decision support to a human navigator, or for facilitating autonomous decision-making in unmanned vehicles. This paper considers the case of autonomous marine surface vehicles, where high-quality decision support will be instrumental for obtaining a periodically unattended bridge and for approval of unmanned bridge operation with fallback through remote operation. The proposed design focuses on a sovereign-based architecture that facilitates safety, resilience and cyber-security. We address central elements of risk in the development and approval of autonomous systems; we analyze the challenges associated with testing, commissioning and maintenance of a highly complex cyber-physical system, and describe design principles for the sovereign agents architecture.
ISSN:2162-1209
DOI:10.1109/SysTol52990.2021.9595889