Maritime Collision Avoidance System
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A pioneer in autonomy technologies, Charles River Analytics leverages their 40 years of experience in advanced Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning R&D to develop leading-edge products and prototypes.
The company’s flexible, high-accuracy AI-powered autonomous lookout system Awarion® is designed to enhance marine situational awareness, detecting, analyzing, and reporting on the presence of whales, ships, fishing buoys, sailboats, and other objects by using electro-optical and infrared video technology.
This ability to provide critical situational awareness in a broad range of maritime industries offers benefits like hazard detection for windfarm developers, the cargo shipping industry, and marine mammal protection groups, among other applications.
Charles River’s Awarion is also a smart system, scanning the environment 24/7 and dynamically tracking targets of interest by mimicking the behavior of human watchstanders, with the added benefit of reliability in low-visibility conditions and reducing operator fatigue and cognitive burden of crews.
The company’s recent developments and achievements include receiving a contract from the Office of Naval Research to prototype and subsequently evaluate HIEROPHANT, a system that, even in challenging environments, facilitates the seamless integration of adaptable and resilient autonomous systems in existing naval structures.
Prototyping is another large part of Charles River’s business, with the company providing year-round access to littoral testing waters via their state-of-the-art Marine Systems Test Facility. This is run in conjunction with their research and development hardware prototyping, enabling a full engineering team with extensive experience in maritime surface and subsurface applications to support and streamline the process.
