The Centre for Assuring Autonomy and DNV, the world’s leading classification society, have signed a £750k partnership agreement which will see the development of a safety assurance framework for autonomous navigation of maritime vessels.
Titled ‘A Star to Steer By’, the four-year project will focus on identifying and refining the foundational safety and assurance requirements that guide the development and validation of AI-enabled autonomous maritime systems. These requirements—our “stars to steer by”—will be systematically transformed into practical, validated assurance case patterns.
The CfAA team, composed of Principal Investigator Professor Ibrahim Habli, Dr Colin Paterson, and Dr Philippa Ryan will be developing safety case patterns and testing these in use cases based on AI-based navigation systems. The work will look at how to assure these models both individually and as part of the wider complex maritime environment and eco-system. (....)