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

Kjeld Dittmann; Nicholas Hansen; Dimitrios Papageorgiou; Mogens Blanke

doi:10.1109/SysTol52990.2021.9595889

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

Kjeld Dittmann, Nicholas Hansen, Dimitrios Papageorgiou, Mogens Blanke

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of 5^th International Conference on Control and Fault-Tolerant Systems
Publisher	IEEE
Publication date	2021
Pages	50-57
ISBN (Print)	978-1-6654-3158-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/SysTol52990.2021.9595889
Publication status	Published - 2021
Event	5^th International Conference on Control and Fault-Tolerant Systems - Palais des Congrès de Saint-Raphaël, Saint-Raphaël, France Duration: 29 Sept 2021 → 1 Oct 2021 Conference number: 5 http://www.systol.org/systol21/

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Conference	5^th International Conference on Control and Fault-Tolerant Systems
Number	5
Location	Palais des Congrès de Saint-Raphaël
Country/Territory	France
City	Saint-Raphaël
Period	29/09/2021 → 01/10/2021
Internet address	http://www.systol.org/systol21/

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Dittmann, K, Hansen, N , Papageorgiou, D & Blanke, M 2021, Autonomy for Ships: A Sovereign Agents Architecture for Reliability and Safety by Design. in Proceedings of 5^th International Conference on Control and Fault-Tolerant Systems. IEEE, pp. 50-57, 5^th International Conference on Control and Fault-Tolerant Systems, Saint-Raphaël, France, 29/09/2021. https://doi.org/10.1109/SysTol52990.2021.9595889

Autonomy for Ships: A Sovereign Agents Architecture for Reliability and Safety by Design. / Dittmann, Kjeld; Hansen, Nicholas ; Papageorgiou, Dimitrios et al.
Proceedings of 5^th International Conference on Control and Fault-Tolerant Systems. IEEE, 2021. p. 50-57.

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