Patent ID: 8849483
Filing Date: 2014-09-30
Classification: G05D

Abstract:
1. A system for navigating an unmanned waterborne surface vehicle safely to a desired location, comprising: one or more sensors configured to be mounted on an unmanned waterborne surface vehicle, said one or more sensors configured to detect the presence of one or more objects different from said unmanned waterborne surface vehicle in the vicinity of said one or more sensors, each of said one or more sensors having a control terminal configured to allow control of said sensor, and each of said one or more sensors having an output terminal configured to provide a signal representative of said presence of said one or more objects different from said unmanned waterborne surface vehicle; and a general purpose programmable computer including instruction recorded on a machine readable memory, said general purpose programmable computer operatively coupled to each of said one or more sensors, said general purpose programmable computer when operating under said instructions configured to perform the following steps: