The method for determining the suboptimal route of sailing vessels operating in a restricted
area of the sea are proposed in the paper. The dynamics of the environment including
weather conditions and speed characteristics of ships sailing are considered. As optimization criterion, measure sailing time T, and the number of maneuvers performed ω, are
taken into account. An heuristic algorithm, and the appropriate application routing for fixed
starting points and targets is designed in the method. In addition author analyzed the behavior
of the algorithm, depending on the number of direction changes of the course, and granularity
of the description of the surface of area.
Method of Routing Ships Sailing in Dedicated Environment
1Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland
DOI: 10.1515/aon-2017-0011
ABSTRACT
KEYWORDS
sailing ship’s routing, route optimization, weather routing, unmanned sailing vessel.
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