Collaborative Unmanned Systems for Maritime and Port Security Operations

Healey, A. J.; Horner, Douglas; Kragelund, Sean; Wring, B.; Monarrez, Abdoón Palacios

doi:10.3182/20070919-3-hr-3904.00002

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“…In order to get such a picture, the importance and the requirement of autonomous and unmanned systems cannot be but emphasized. Though numerous questions about tracking and control across platforms and existing network systems need to be studied and resolved, there is no doubt that these vehicles are the future of maritime surveillance and numerous other dull, dirty, and dangerous activities at sea (Healey et al, 2007).…”

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confidence: 99%

Integrating UUVs for naval applications

Agarwala¹

2021

Marit. Technol. Res.

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Underwater surveillance technology was an advent of the Cold War. This technology saw numerous advancements only once the technology was declassified and pursued by academia. One such advancement in the maritime domain was the development of the Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV) that has the ability to enhance war-fighting capabilities while de-risking human life. Though this technology has since been commercialised, it has found limited takers in the Navy. The limited inroad it has made has been driven primarily by the developers and the governments that fund them. However, since this technology offers numerous benefits to the military it needs to be integrated into the Navy sooner than later. This essentially means that to achieve greater acceptance for naval use/ applications, integrating this technology into the Navy is essential. This in return requires numerous queries to be answered and facts understood to create greater confidence in the technology and its potential. Accordingly, some of these queries that can help address the knowledge gaps to facilitate future acceptance and induction of the UUV technology into the Navy are discussed. Though an attempt to provide comprehensive answers has been made, these answers are not considered complete but only a start point for a debate. As it stands, the technology exists; however, it is a lack of imagination that is disallowing its usage.

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Integrating UUVs for naval applications

Agarwala¹

2021

Marit. Technol. Res.

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“…With an automatic UAV system equipped on ships, the offshore marine devices can be deployed in a much faster manner [ 10 , 11 ]. In addition, the UAV system can help the maritime safety department to monitor any unidentified boats or ships in the open sea in a much faster and safer manner [ 12 , 13 ]. Additionally, it can also be of great assistance in maritime search and rescue (SAR) missions to assist any boat or ship under threat [ 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 ].…”

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Proactive Guidance for Accurate UAV Landing on a Dynamic Platform: A Visual–Inertial Approach

Chang

Cheung

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Sensors

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This work aimed to develop an autonomous system for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to land on moving platforms such as an automobile or a marine vessel, providing a promising solution for a long-endurance flight operation, a large mission coverage range, and a convenient recharging ground station. Unlike most state-of-the-art UAV landing frameworks that rely on UAV onboard computers and sensors, the proposed system fully depends on the computation unit situated on the ground vehicle/marine vessel to serve as a landing guidance system. Such a novel configuration can therefore lighten the burden of the UAV, and the computation power of the ground vehicle/marine vessel can be enhanced. In particular, we exploit a sensor fusion-based algorithm for the guidance system to perform UAV localization, whilst a control method based upon trajectory optimization is integrated. Indoor and outdoor experiments are conducted, and the results show that precise autonomous landing on a 43 cm × 43 cm platform can be performed.

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“…Tele-operated systems are becoming increasingly more autonomous, and autonomy is indeed considered as one of the "Eight Great Technologies" (HM Government 2013). 1 This raises ethical questions, particularly when autonomous systems are in possession of firepower (Healey et al 2013). Several robotic automation systems, such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), are being used in combat today.…”

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Ethical Aspects of Military Maritime and Aerial Autonomous Systems

Johansson

2018

Journal of Military Ethics

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Two categories of ethical questions surrounding military autonomous systems are discussed in this article. The first category concerns ethical issues regarding the use of military autonomous systems in the air and in the water. These issues are systematized with the Laws of Armed Conflict (LOAC) as a backdrop. The second category concerns whether autonomous systems may affect the ethical interpretation of LOAC. It is argued that some terms in LOAC are vague and can be interpreted differently depending on which ethical normative theory is used, which may increase with autonomous systems. The impact of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) on the laws of war will be discussed and compared to Maritime Autonomous Systems (MAS). The conclusion is that there is need for revisions of LOAC regarding autonomous systems, and that the greatest ethically relevant difference between UAVs and MAS has to do with issues connected to jus ad bellumparticularly lowering the threshold for starting warbut also the sense of unfairness, violation of integrity, and the potential for secret wars.

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Collaborative Unmanned Systems for Maritime and Port Security Operations

Cited by 14 publications

References 9 publications

Integrating UUVs for naval applications

Integrating UUVs for naval applications

Proactive Guidance for Accurate UAV Landing on a Dynamic Platform: A Visual–Inertial Approach

Ethical Aspects of Military Maritime and Aerial Autonomous Systems

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