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ISSN 2083-6473
ISSN 2083-6481 (electronic version)
Editor-in-Chief
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Prof. Tomasz Neumann
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TransNav, Faculty of Navigation
Gdynia Maritime University
3, John Paul II Avenue
81-345 Gdynia, POLAND
e-mail transnav@umg.edu.pl
Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) and the COLREGS: Do We Need Quantified Rules Or Is “the Ordinary Practice of Seamen” Specific Enough?
1 Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
Times cited (SCOPUS): 15
ABSTRACT: Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) is currently on the agenda in several countries and also in the IMO. In Norway a 120 TEU container feeder is being build and will start sailing autonomously in 2022. The challenge is huge. One question is whether or not the present, quantitative, collision regulations needs to be updated to rules where expressions as “early” and “substantial” are quantified? Or if ships can sail autonomously under the present rules? Another question is if MASS should be marked to signal that the ship is in autonomous mode? Or if it is enough that she follows COLREGS? This discussion paper will take a closer look at these questions and advocate automation transparency, meaning that the behavior of an autonomous vessel has to make sense and be understandable to human operators on other manned ships and crafts.
KEYWORDS: Anti-Collision, Colregs, Collision Avoidance, Officer of the Watch (OOW), Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS), Ordinary Practice of Seamen, Shore Control Centre (SCC), Operational Design Domain (ODD)
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Citation note:
Porathe T.: Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) and the COLREGS: Do We Need Quantified Rules Or Is “the Ordinary Practice of Seamen” Specific Enough?. TransNav, the International Journal on Marine Navigation and Safety of Sea Transportation, Vol. 13, No. 3, doi:10.12716/1001.13.03.04, pp. 511-517, 2019
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