Governing autonomous ocean vehicles in shared waters for low-income communities
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Global, Global
WS04873
Future fleets of autonomous vessels may survey, extract, monitor, or patrol oceans without continuous human control. The challenge is establishing safety, attribution, environmental limits, and collision rules across maritime jurisdictions. The solution must work with limited capital, intermittent services, and local maintenance capacity. The research opportunity is to define measurable success criteria, test the approach in realistic settings, identify failure modes, and create a pathway from prototype to accountable deployment.