The purpose of this study was to specify the effects of alcohol on the performance of ship operators as a contribution to the development of new strategies against the risks of alcohol in water traffic. The nautical performance of 21 captains before and after alcohol consumption was assessed on a ship piloting simulator. The simulated scenarios represented passages of a container vessel through...

We present a bistatic, polarimetric and real aperture Marine Radar Simulator (MaRS) producing pseudo-raw radar signal. The simulation takes the main elements of the environment into account (sea temperature, salinity, wind speed). Realistic sea surfaces are generated using a two-scales model on a semi-deterministic basis, so as to be able to incorporate the presence of ship wakes. Then, the rad...

Due to increasing marine traffic intensity on inland waterways the interaction between ships and banks is becoming more of a problem. Bank effects make ship manoeuvring more difficult and rivers need to be protected against ship-induced currents and waves. is thesis contributes to the development of a new method that simulates these ship-bank interaction effects in realtime. Such predictions a...

This paper describes an Intelligent Agent for real-time crisis decision making, called Minerva-DCA, which improves its performance by compiling the results of a first-principles simulator. The agent is blackboard based and uses envisionment to schedule its actions. This is necessary because the complexity and chaos associated with ship damage control don’t allow the range of necessary behaviors...

Human performance has been shown to be negatively correlated with seasickness. By reducing crew, ship size, and hence redundancy, sickness induced risks increase exponentially. Although medication is effective, it also causes drowsiness. Non-pharmacological countermeasures are scarce, the most popular one being to look at the horizon. We exploited the latter by creating an artificial Earth-fixe...

Abstract Calculation of ship operating costs is the main element in determining tariffs, since high and low rates very important shipping business. In other words, right key to success Vessel are determined by direct indirect operational costs. Direct include capital costs, insurance premiums, crew fuel lubricant grease fresh water port Repair, Maintenance, Supply (RMS) The branch office admin ...