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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 08, 2023
Furuno Electric Co., Ltd., Nishinomiya, JP;
Seiichi Uoshita, Nishinomiya, JP;
FURUNO ELECTRIC CO., LTD., Nishinomiya, JP;
Abstract
A navigation route planning apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to receive a planned route indicating a route and a current course direction of a movable body, receive movable body information that includes a position, a travelling direction, and a speed of the own ship, receive obstacle information that includes a position, a traveling direction, and a speed of an obstacle, determine a collision risk value associated with the planned route along the current course direction based on the movable body information and the obstacle information, and determine whether the movable body requires to at least one of evade the planned route and continue traversing on the planned route based on the collision risk value.