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Collision Avoidance as a Game of Co-ordination

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 1981

W. P. Cannell
W. P. Cannell
Affiliation:
Department of Maritime Studies, Liverpool Polytechnic
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The literature of the recent past concerned with the collision avoidance regulations cannot be regarded as the model of rational scientific discussion. Subjective arguments based on personal experience of particular situations and very general mathematical analyses are pitted together without any generally accepted criteria by which to judge them. Obviously both mathematics and experience have great relevance to this geometrically simple, but operationally involved, problem. One step nearer a rational optimization of a set of regulations defining action during collision avoidance would be a formalization of the criteria a successful rule of the road must meet, and of the operational difficulties it faces. The present regulations, for instance, suffer from several logical inconsistencies which are difficult to describe in simple mathematical terms.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Navigation , Volume 34 , Issue 2 , May 1981 , pp. 220 - 239
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1981

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