Autonomous Collision Avoidance Tradespace Analysis for High-Speed Vessels

In this work, a tradespace was introduced allowing a weighted combination of a course change and speed change when deviating from the preferred velocity vector in protocol - constrained autonomous collision avoidance algorithms. A novel iterative geometry testing technique...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Woerner, Kyle, Benjamin, Michael
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/117066
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9499-9630
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Summary:In this work, a tradespace was introduced allowing a weighted combination of a course change and speed change when deviating from the preferred velocity vector in protocol - constrained autonomous collision avoidance algorithms. A novel iterative geometry testing technique was introduced and key evaluation metrics were studied including the introduction of a protocol - compliance metric for collision avoidance scenario s. The performance metric results differ ed for high - speed vessels indicating a need for parameter tuning specific to high - speed vessels before applying collision avoidance algorithms tested on slower vessels.