UK STUDY ON NAVIGATIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR AUTONOMOUS VESSELS

摘要

L_3 ASV is working in conjunction with the UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) and the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) on a pioneering UK government-funded study to identify future data requirements for autonomous shipping. It will explore how navigational and wider geospatial data can be used to enable the safe navigation of smart and unmanned autonomous maritime vessels.Historically, navigational data and charts have been developed to be read and interpreted by humans. For more than two centuries, the world's hydrographic offices have sourced and processed a wealth of marine and geospatial data - including bathymetry, seabed characteristics and the speed and direction of tides - and supplied it to shipping and defence. The number of unmanned vessels, relying on computers algorithms to read and interpret chart data, is likely to increase at a prodigious rate in the coming decades.