A software platform for real-time assessment of ship maneuverability

Author

Malamas, Elias N. ; Petrakis, Nikolaos

Author_Institution

Crete Naval Base, Hellenic Navy NATO FORACS range, Souda, Greece

fYear

2010

fDate

15-17 Sept. 2010

Firstpage

379

Lastpage

382

Abstract

In this paper we present a software platform dedicated to the maneuverability assessment of naval units, both on surface and submerged. The suggested platform exhibits such characteristics as real-time processing of ship track and heading data, off-line processing of post-processed DGPS data for increased accuracy and real-time calculation and graphical presentation of maneuvering performance evaluation results. The results of processing benchmark testing data are compared against results of similar software platforms and the correctness of calculations is verified along with the robustness of the proposed platform, making it suitable for testing any class of ship as opposed to other maneuverability assessment programs.

Keywords

Global Positioning System; benchmark testing; computer graphics; naval engineering computing; ships; benchmark testing; graphical presentation; offline processing; post processed DGPS data; real time assessment; ship maneuverability; ship track; software platform; Data models; Marine vehicles; Predictive models; Real time systems; Software; Testing; Trajectory; Acceleration; Deceleration; Stopping test; assessment; maneuverability; tactical turns;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

ELMAR, 2010 PROCEEDINGS

Conference_Location

Zadar

ISSN

1334-2630

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6371-8

Electronic_ISBN

1334-2630

Type

conf

Filename

5606134