Advanced Ship Control Methods

The chapter presents two main streams of research in vessel control at sea: dynamic positioning (DP)Dynamic positioning of the vessel and decision support in case of collision at sea. The control structure and basic requirements for the DP system are defined. Selected issues of automatic control of a dynamically positioned vessel are discussed. A review of advanced methods of controlling a DP ship is carried out, taking into account the tasks of particular subsystems. In the scope of decision support, the issue of collision avoidanceCollision avoidance at sea is discussed. This problem is defined as a dynamic multi-criteria optimizationMulti-criteria optimisation task which consists in looking for effective solutions that meet specific criteria within a set of acceptable solutions. To solve this problem, the evolutionary method of path planning is used.