Multi-Target Collision Avoidance Route Planning under an ECDIS Framework

The universality of the automatic identification system (AIS) as well as the electronic chart display and information system (ECDIS) installations will provide revolutionary solution schemes for the e-navigation era of informatization, intellectualization, and integration. Based on this concept, this study adopted ECDIS as an information platform for navigational decision support and used the real-time navigation information received by the AIS to construct predicted areas of danger (PAD) for target ships. The advantages of direct viewing via the PAD in the collision avoidance give PAD a new application. Subsequently, spatial data from an electronic navigation chart (ENC) was employed as a basis for generating geographical obstacles. Through the integration of a geographic information system (GIS) module, specially designed evolutionary computation, and collision prevention regulations (COLREGS) knowledge as well as by comprehensively considering overall navigation situations, this system conducted obstacle avoidance processing and selection of a route. The system could generate a route that could simultaneously achieve multi-ship encounter collision avoidance and geographical obstacle avoidance. This is expected to provide mariners with greater convenience when working at sea, reducing their workload. This system can also be used as a reference for collision avoidance decision making.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2016.05.040
• Record URL:
  • http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0029801816301603
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/00298018
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
• Authors:
  • Tsou, Ming-Cheng
• Publication Date: 2016-7-15

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 268-278
• Serial:
  • Ocean Engineering
  • Volume: 121
  • Publisher: Pergamon
  • ISSN: 0029-8018
  • EISSN: 1873-5258
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00298018

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash avoidance systems; Geographic information systems; Route guidance; Ship navigational aids
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Marine Transportation; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01606474
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 28 2016 10:45AM