An autonomous boat capability for man or unmanned vessels to build a contextual understanding of the marine environment to identify situations of collisions, man-overboard, intrusion and taking appropriate action based on context. This includes imaging (conventional camera, ToF camera, depth camera, thermal cameras, radar, lidar) and audio (microphone, sonar, sonic) sensors, compute device to build environmental understand, recognition, and compute optimal route navigation, controller to manage heading, controller to handle propulsion, display for latest marine information and navigation data, speakers to alert crew, horn to signal to other vessels.
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTONOMOUS MARITIME VESSEL SECURITY AND SAFETY
2020-01-09
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