title: Autonomous Surface Vessels and Design for Availability
abstract: Equipment faults and failures are generally tolerated more-so in maritime than in other transportation domains given the heightened safety-criticality of equipment onboard air and land vehicles as compared to sea-going vessels. As a result, ensuring availability of conventional vessel equipment can require bespoke and complex maintenance and repair tasks to be carried out particularly for long-duration operations. However, a future proliferation of Autonomous Surface Vessels (ASVs) demands a dif