基于MAS和航海模拟器技术构建船舶自动避碰仿真平台

船舶自动避碰是航海研究的热点之一,国内外专家学者提出了许多方法并开发了多种系统。然而,如何测试和验证这些方法和系统仍然是一个有待解决的问题。实船海上试验风险高费用大,同时灵活性差花费时间长;许多研究人员所采用的单机仿真试验则难以有效仿真复杂的海上航行情况。应用Multi-agent系统(MAS)理论和技术以及多本船航海模拟器,构建和开发了自动避碰仿真试验和测试平台。仿真试验表明该平台可以取得与实船海上试验相类似的效果,并且可以有效解决海上实船实验和单机仿真试验所带来的缺点和局限。

Construction of Simulation Platform for Vessel Automatic Collision Avoidance with Technologies of MAS and Navigational Simulator

Vessel collision avoidance automation is a hot research area and various technologies and systems have been proposed. Verification and test of the technologies and systems, however, still remains as an open problem. Sea tests on real ships involve very high risks and tremendous costs, and are also proved to be intractable and time-consuming. Single-station simulation tests, which are adopted by most of the previous researchers, show the limitations to create the complicated navigational situations at sea. A novel approach was proposed for verification and test of vessel automatic collision avoidance systems. Multiple navigational simulators and Multi-agent system technology were employed to construct the simulation platform. Experimental tests demonstrate that, with the proposed platform, effects similar to sea test on real ship, can be obtained, and the defects and limitations of sea test and single-station simulation test can be successfully diminished.