ABSTRACT
The purpose of following paper is to analyse how a navigational support system would behave in a collision situation upon encountering another vessel also steered by a NSS. This case study of two AI-driven vessels is executed under laboratory circumstances within the use of Navdec System, a navigational decision support tool established as a direct aid to the vessel’s bridge Officer team. Decisions undertaken by the Navdec are compared to the experience-based choices of the Master in the exact case. Latter analysis of experiment’s outcome is given as a premise for the real introduction of a NSS into practical use.
