A real-time collision avoidance learning system for Unmanned Surface Vessels

A great amount of effort has been devoted to the study on Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USV) due to an increasing demand for their use in a variety of maritime applications. Real-time autonomous collision avoidance system is the pivotal issue here, in which reliable collision risk detection and the adoption of a plausible collision avoidance maneuver play a key role. Existing studies on this subject seldom integrate the COLREGS guidelines, however,...