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Ørnulf Jan Rødseth1, Lars Andreas Lien Wennersberg1, Håvard Nordahl1
1SINTEF Ocean, Postboks 4762 Torgard, 7465 Trondheim, Norway.
Abstract:
Current guidelines for approval of autonomous ship systems are focused on the ships' concrete operations and their geographic area. This is a natural consequence of the link between geography and the navigational complexity, but moving the ship to a new area or changing owners may require a costly re-approval. The automotive industry has introduced the Operational Design Domain (ODD) that can be used as a basis for approval. However, the ODD does not include the human control responsibilities, while most autonomous ship systems are expected to be dependent on sharing control responsibilities between humans and automation. We propose the definition of an operational envelope for autonomous ship systems that include the sharing of responsibilities between human and automation, and that is general enough to allow approval of autonomous ship systems in all geographic areas and operations that falls within the envelope. We also show how the operational envelope can be defined using a system modelling language, such as the unified modelling language (UML).
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